[Talk-ca] GNS tag cleanup

[steggink at steggink.org]

Hi Pierre,

Did you intend to post this link:  
http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/gis_countryfiles.html ?

Frank

Quoting Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr>:

> This page gives the variables description. To reconcile with GNS, I  
> suggest that only UFI and UNI unique identifiers have to be kept.
>
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> Pierre
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> ________________________________
>  De : "steggink at steggink.org" <steggink at steggink.org>
> À : talk-ca at openstreetmap.org
> Envoyé le : Vendredi 14 février 2014 4h39
> Objet : Re: [Talk-ca] GNS tag cleanup
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>
> Hi Paul,
>
> gns:jog refers to the sheet number of the Joint Operations Graphics 
> map series.
> gns:mgrs refers to the Military Grid Reference System, which is 
> nothing more than an alternate representation of the coordinate system
>
> IMO both these values can be safely removed.
>
> I don't know about the other ones. Perhaps you can find more 
> information here: http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/
>
> Regards,
>
> Frank
>
> Quoting Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com>:
>
>> About 6 years ago, a set of data was imported from GNS, consisting of place
>> names, mainly of place=town.
>>
>> As an example, see http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/52556192/history
>>
>> Thy have a few tags, many of which can probably be safely automatically
>> eliminated by editor software.
>>
>> Using the example node, I think the following should be added to the
>> automatic removal list in editors
>>
>>
>> gns:dms_lat=490200
>> gns:dms_long=-1224900
>> gns:lat=49.033333
>> gns:long=-122.816667
>> gns:n:xx:full_name=White Rock
>> gns:n:xx:full_name_nd=White Rock
>> gns:n:xx:modify_date=1993-12-14
>> gns:n:xx:sort_name=WHITEROCK
>> gns:cc1=CA
>>
>> I'm not sure on the following. Anyone know their history, and if they're of
>> any use to OSM?
>>
>> gns:adm1=02
>> gns:dsg=PPL
>> gns:fc=P
>> gns:jog=NM10-08
>> gns:mgrs=10UEV1340031177
>> gns:n:xx:nt=N
>> gns:rc=1
>> gns:ufi=-575923
>> gns:uni=-812858
>>
>>
>> Any comments?
>>
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