[Talk-us] GNIS Import Done

[Ian Dees]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:43 AM, David Lynch <djlynch at gmail.com> wrote:

> Another thing I'm seeing as I look around is duplicates and
> near-duplicates ("Zavala School" vs. "Zavala Elementary School", for
> instance.) For now, I'm putting both feature IDs into one point,
> separated by a semicolon. Does that work for your purposes of
> reporting back to GNIS?


If you know that Zavala School and Zavala Elementary School are the same
thing, then you should delete the "less correct" node (along with its
gnis:feature_id). That would eventually push a "delete the less correct data
point" change into GNIS, which is a good thing I think.
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