[Talk-us] GNIS Import

[Adam Schreiber]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Adam Schreiber <sadam at clemson.edu> wrote:
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>> Is there an easy way to merge the tags from the nodes to areas that
>> have already been mapped?  I just noticed a lot of nodes show up for
>> buildings at my university.
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> There's a "copy tags" feature in JOSM that doesn't seem to work. That's
> about the only way I know of right now.
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> I can't think of a way to automate it, though. It looks like something that
> could be pretty easy to put in to Amazon's mechanical turk: "which one of
> these is better?"

At first blush this would seem better than manually doing this work,
but some of the building names have changed or the GNIS data has a
more complete name, but the area should be the one that is kept.  I'm
not terribly familiar with the mechanical turk approach, but I thought
it was too simplistic to do this?

Cheers,

Adam