[OSM-newbies] Church, or not?

[Mike N.]

Perhaps I phrased it wrong - they're not a consumer of OSM data as a whole, 
but a better wording is that the import was done in a manner to allow 
keeping GNIS data in OSM in sync with GNIS, as well as updating GNIS data 
with updates from OSM data.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/USGS_GNIS

    Keeping them synced won't be trivial, but since it's mostly POI data, 
it's a thousand times easier than keeping OSM synced with updated TIGER 
data.

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From: "Richard Weait" <richard at weait.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 8:00 AM
To: <newbies at openstreetmap.org>
Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] Church, or not?

> On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Mike N. <niceman at att.net> wrote:
>
> [ ... ]
>> GNIS is one of the consumers of
>> OSM data, so they will eventually correct a POI location after we update 
>> it.
> [ ... ]
>
> Interesting.  Is this so?  Where can I find out more?