[HOT] GNS name merging discussion thread

[Andrew Buck]

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For these I have just been making sure it gets in as an alternate name
and not been putting a fixme on them.  The spelling of these names is
not generally fixed, and the names seem to be fairly fluid over time.
 Without local knowledge to know which one is currently (or most
widely) in use, we can't do any better than make sure we list all of
the options.

- -AndrewBuck





On 08/17/2014 08:58 AM, Blake Girardot wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> I agree about the duplicate names, I just ran into a few in
> Liberia.
> 
> But I have another question related to how we should handle names.
> 
> I am running into several nodes where the "name" tag is one name,
> but the JOG map shows another name. Now this other name is almost
> always listed as an alternate name, and if it is not I for sure add
> it as an alternate name.
> 
> My question is:
> 
> If the main "name" tag is different than the JOG label should we:
> 
> 1. Change the name to match the JOG map, and make sure the GNS
> import name is listed as an alternate name ?
> 
> 2. Leave it as it comes in from GNS making sure JOG map name is
> listed as an alternate?
> 
> 3. Make it as fixme=Confirm name after doing either one of the two
> above option?
> 
> 
> Sorry to be so picky, but as long as we going through and cleaning
> up data, I'd like to get it as good as we can.
> 
> Regards, Blake Girardot
> 
> 
> 
> On 8/17/2014 5:03 AM, Tom Taylor wrote:
>> Scary time last night and this am. It appears I got cut off from
>> the Internet from Toronto outward around 9:30 pm EDT and couldn't
>> submit the results of several hours' work. I opened a changeset,
>> but it got closed at the other end before anything went up. This
>> caused a couple of glitches this morning, but eventually
>> everything worked.
>> 
>> Checking over OpenStreetMap, it looks like everything is OK. I
>> was concerned to notice at least four distinct instances of Baoma
>> scattered over the map in Task square 619#187 and maybe also
>> #205. I'll have to verify on the US Topo maps when I reopen JOSM.
>> This must complicate life for the map users -- they would have to
>> use the GNS UFI to distinguish.
>> 
>> I also note from memory that there is a Palima without attributed
>> source on the east side of the Sewa River and one further west
>> that I took from GNS and verified against the US Army Topo map.
>> 
>> TomT5454 Tom Taylor
>> 
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