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<div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Mar 21, 2019, 1:14 PM by ethnicfoodisgreat@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 08:04:13 +0100 (CET)<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">From: Mateusz Konieczny <<a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="mailto:matkoniecz@tutanota.com">matkoniecz@tutanota.com</a>><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Cc: Talk Us <<a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="mailto:talk-us@openstreetmap.org">talk-us@openstreetmap.org</a>><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Proposed mechanical edit - remove objects that<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"> are not existing according to source of GNIS import that added them<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Mar 21, 2019, 4:46 AM by <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="mailto:m@rtijn.org">m@rtijn.org</a>:<br></div><blockquote><blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">On Mar 20, 2019, at 9:01 AM, Mateusz Konieczny <>> <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="mailto:matkoniecz@tutanota.com">matkoniecz@tutanota.com</a> <mailto:<a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="mailto:matkoniecz@tutanota.com">matkoniecz@tutanota.com</a>>>> > wrote:<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">I plan to run an automated edit that will revert part of the GNIS<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">import that added them and delete objects that never had any reason to<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">appear in the OSM database in any form, at least according to GNIS data.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Please comment no matter what you think about this idea! I will not<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">make the edit without a clear support so please comment if you think<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">that it is a good idea and if you think that it should not be done.>><br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">Thanks for bringing the idea up. It actually did come up fairly recently on Slack > <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://osmus.slack.com/archives/C029HV951/p1550176430103000">https://osmus.slack.com/archives/C029HV951/p1550176430103000</a> <<a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://osmus.slack.com/archives/C029HV951/p1550176430103000">https://osmus.slack.com/archives/C029HV951/p1550176430103000</a>>><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">My view is that we would be missing an opportunity to have mappers review these locations and update the areas concerned. These nodes exist mostly in ‘undermapped' / remote areas that could use some human mapper attention. So I’d be in favor of trying to resolve this using some human driven cleanup first.<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">What is the benefit, during survey, of mapped places that are not existing anymore?<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">I encounter many during surveys (usually result of data getting outdated) and for me it was<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">always time sink (as I needed to check is it actually gone) and never useful in any way.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Note that it is not obvious, especially for beginner or data users, that all of this places<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">are not existing anymore.<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Instead of deleting the features that don't exist anymore, couldn't they be moved over to OHM?<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">Moving data to OHM from OSM requires<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">(1) deleting data in OSM<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">(2) importing data to OHM<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">And importing GNIS to OHM would work better if it would be imported straight from GNIS rather<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">than from partial OSM data that was transformed GNIS data.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Also, I would be surprised if OHM still has no GNIS data.<br></div> </body>
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