[Talk-us] GNIS Import

Ian Dees ian.dees at gmail.com
Fri Apr 10 18:19:18 BST 2009


On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Adam Schreiber <sadam at clemson.edu> wrote:

>
> 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?


If there is an area for the building, just copy the gnis tags over to the
building if you're absolutely sure that they represent the same thing. Then,
delete the GNIS-imported node.

Eventually I will do a grep through all X million node/tags for the
gnis:id's and see what has changed.
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