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

[Alan Mintz]

At 2009-09-09 10:29, you wrote:
>2) Create the building (building=yes), copy all of the GNIS tags to the 
>building, delete the original Point of Interest node.

This is what I do. No need to have duplicate info out there.


>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?

Any future import could deal with it easily enough.

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Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>