<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">My comments largely revolve around the use of editor based deprecation.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">---</div><div class="gmail_quote">
One comment is specific to GNS. The gns:uni and gns:ufi are a primary keys in the source data, and as such should definitely be kept to aid in future matching or conflation of the object. See:</div><div class="gmail_quote">
<a href="http://www.geographic.org/geographic_names/definitions.html#UFI">http://www.geographic.org/geographic_names/definitions.html#UFI</a><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">And:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><a href="http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/">http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/</a><br>
</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Also of some value is <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">gns:fc. gns:nt should have been used during the original import to tag historic names differently and perhaps shuffle some of them to a historic map database.</span></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">---</div><div class="gmail_quote">In general I feel the editor delete list approach is bad for two reasons:</div><div class="gmail_quote">1) Tags are deleted behind the back of human editors. There's no effective human review since the deletion is done at save time not load time in common editors.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">2) Slowly bit-rotting away data does not give data consumers any notice that their tags are going away. Far better that a data consumer notices the deprecation right away. They could then can adjust their software, or argue for restoration of the data, before the data is long gone under a blizzard of overlapping edits.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 11:45 PM, Paul Norman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:penorman@mac.com" target="_blank">penorman@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">About 6 years ago, a set of data was imported from GNS, consisting of place<br>
names, mainly of place=town.<br>Any comments?</blockquote></div></div></div>