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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, 4:46 AM by m@rtijn.org:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 20, 2019, at 9:01 AM, Mateusz Konieczny <<a href="mailto:matkoniecz@tutanota.com" class="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">matkoniecz@tutanota.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div class=""><div style="16px" text-align="left"><span class="font" style="font-family:Helvetica"><span class="size" style="font-size:14px">I plan to run an automated edit that will revert part of the GNIS</span></span><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><span class="font" style="font-family:Helvetica"><span class="size" style="font-size:14px">import that added them and delete objects that never had any reason to</span></span><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><span class="font" style="font-family:Helvetica"><span class="size" style="font-size:14px">appear in the OSM database in any form, at least according to GNIS data.</span></span><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><span class="font" style="font-family:Helvetica"><span class="size" style="font-size:14px">Please comment no matter what you think about this idea! I will not</span></span><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><span class="font" style="font-family:Helvetica"><span class="size" style="font-size:14px">make the edit without a clear support so please comment if you think</span></span><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><span class="font" style="font-family:Helvetica"><span class="size" style="font-size:14px">that it is a good idea and if you think that it should not be done.<span class=""> </span></span></span><br></div></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Thanks for bringing the idea up. It actually did come up fairly recently on Slack <a href="https://osmus.slack.com/archives/C029HV951/p1550176430103000" class="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://osmus.slack.com/archives/C029HV951/p1550176430103000</a> <br></div><div class=""><br></div><div class=""><div class="">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></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> </body>
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