[Talk-us] NHD status?

[Ian Dees]

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Karl Newman <siliconfiend at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I think you should import everything. Maybe. I'm not fully versed in the
> NHD, and I understand it has some things like flood channels which are
> filled only during 100-year floods or something... But even the more obscure
> water features might be useful to someone. Anyway, where the OSM tags line
> up, use those, otherwise you could invent some tags (like someone mentioned,
> hydrology or hydrography as a key name is a possibility, especially for
> things like flowlines which probably shouldn't be on the default map). I
> think you should always include a nhd:ftype and/or nhd:fcode tag to link
> back to the source. Otherwise you might force fit a bunch of fine-grained
> NHD categories into one broader OSM tag and then we would lose detail.
>

I agree. All of the attributes that we get out of the shapefile should be
included, except for the lengthkm and areakm2 attributes.
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