<div dir="ltr">Andrew,<div><br></div><div>I loaded your data into JOSM and its really something! Good work. I think if you poke around, you'll see that many of the place=* places have already been imported by the GNIS import. Most of them will be (perhaps incorrectly) place=hamlet, unless another editor upgraded them.</div>
<div><br></div><div>For instance, the town of Northfield (where I briefly lived) has a node with the proper attributes: <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/158851899">https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/158851899</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Now, I just noticed in your data the names include the census place type, like Northfield <i>Village, </i>Barton <i>Village, </i>etc. I believe those are place types and not the actual administrative name. in the census data, they spell the types with lowercase to indicate this (I believe). Head to <a href="http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml">http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml</a> and type in "Northfield vi" and you'll see what I mean. Perhaps you want to look into that.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Kindly,</div><div><br></div><div>Elliott</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Andrew Guertin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew.guertin@uvm.edu" target="_blank">andrew.guertin@uvm.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I've removed place=* from all elements.<br>
<a href="http://www.uvm.edu/~aguertin/osm/vermont-towns-counties-villages4.osm" target="_blank">http://www.uvm.edu/~aguertin/<u></u>osm/vermont-towns-counties-<u></u>villages4.osm</a><br>
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Having seen everyone's objections and thought about it more, I still think that within the context of a Vermont-only map, it would make most sense to keep things labelled with place, but to better match how they're used elsewhere I'll leave them out.<div class="HOEnZb">
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--Andrew<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Elliott Plack</div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://about.me/elliottp" target="_blank">http://about.me/elliottp</a></div>
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