[OSM-newbies] Converting GNIS Points of Interest to Areas?

David Price david at ideatec.us
Wed Sep 9 18:29:05 BST 2009


When wanting to add a building or area outline for an USGS GNIS imported
Point of Interest, is it better to:

1) Create the building (building=yes), with no additional tags identifying
it as the specific building (hostpital, fire station, etc).  And leave the
GNIS tagged Point of Interest node on top.  Or...

2) Create the building (building=yes), copy all of the GNIS tags to the
building, delete the original Point of Interest node.

Option (1) seems to be OK, if it is a building, but not sure it would work
if it is a property outline... for examle, a school campus.  If I want to
outline the school campus and set that to (amenity=school), and the GNIS
Point of Interest node is also left there, we see two icons rendered.  But
if I don't tag the Area as a school, it isn't rendered properly.

I guess my concern is corrupting the USGS GNIS data by converting from a
Point to an Area (closed ways).  Is this even a concern?

Thanks,
David
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