[OSM-newbies] POI Replace or keep

[Phil! Gold]

* Stephen Johnson <earthstephen at yahoo.com> [2012-07-12 17:43 -0700]:
> I did a building outline for an American football stadium that
> previously had only a POI node indicating its location. The POI was
> generated from the USGS GNIS database. The geographic location for the
> GNIS POI was way off (I found it in the middle of a swamp about 7.6 km
> east of the correct location). I originally moved the POI then I merged
> its tag data with the finished building outline. My question is do the
> generated GNIS tags have any real meaning in this case? Should I delete
> them?

I always delete the ele tag, since it's less applicable to an area than a
point.  Of the rest, I usually leave the gnis:featureid tag, just in case
someone wants to try to interrelate the two databases at some point in the
future.  That's honestly a pretty remote possibility, so a lot of people
just delete all the GNIS tags.