[OSM-dev] Node and Area for one Feature

[Ian Dees]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Mike N. <niceman at att.net> wrote:

> This brings up a small issue in the US with GNIS data import - much of
> which
> consists of nodes with feature identifiers.  At one time, there was a plan
> to feed back node placement corrections to GNIS based on these nodes.
> However since many features are best rendered by creating a building or
> waterbody, most people will delete the node to eliminate the duplicate
> rendering.


In all my communication about the GNIS import, I asked that people copy the
tags from the node to the area so that the gnis:* tags were preserved.
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