[Talk-us] GNIS Import Done

[Ian Dees]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Adam Schreiber <sadam at clemson.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 3. If there are already OSM features in your area for a certain node that
> I
> > imported, feel free to delete my node, but please merge at least the
> > gnis:feature_id tag from the GNIS data so that we can keep track of
> future
> > name changes.
>
> What about features that are polygons in OSM but nodes in the GNIS data?
>

Since all features in GNIS are nodes, I will just take the centroid of the
polygon to be the point that might end up in GNIS. Feel free to apply the
gnis tags to polygonal ways.

The more important data I think would be changes to the name or
classification and whether or not it even exists.
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