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<div><div dir="ltr"><div>After reviewing the Import/Guidelines wiki, I realize I should have posted here first, but here's a quick "after action report" on a recent import. Better late than never. :)</div><div><br></div><div>I noticed that although USGS GNIS data had been imported into OSM in the past, the US golf course locations provided as GNIS Locales had not been included.</div><div><br></div><div>So, I retrieved GNIS Locales with "Golf" in the name from http://geonames.usgs.gov/ and saved them as OSM nodes, using these tags:</div><div><br></div><div>gnis:Class = Locale</div><div>gnis:County = [various]</div><div>gnis:ST_alpha = [various]</div><div>gnis:id = [various]</div><div>leisure = golf_course</div><div>name = [various]</div><div>source = USGS GNIS</div><div><br></div><div>From the list of ~6000 nodes, I removed any that overlapped with existing OSM golf_course nodes or ways.</div><div><br></div><div>The remaining 4421 nodes were then added as Changeset 10168800.</div><div><br></div><div>The data license is OK (USGS GNIS has been used before), and the new nodes should not screw up existing data (although I am sure they are not perfect), so hopefully this import will be a good starting point for further manual edits.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks.</div> </div></div> </div></body>
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