[Talk-us] NHD import: what data quality is acceptable?

[Paul Norman]

> From: James Umbanhowar [mailto:jumbanho at gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2012 6:43 PM
> To: talk-us at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [Talk-us] NHD import: what data quality is acceptable?
> 
> On Sun, 2012-07-22 at 18:33 -0700, Paul Norman wrote:
> 
> >
> > The main weakness with NHD data that I find is that there is no way to
> > distinguish between an OSM waterway=stream and waterway=river
> >
> 
> Why not use the name?

The name is the best way I've found and is in fact what I'm using
(https://github.com/pnorman/ogr2osm-translations/blob/69434ec55a48e9e4858ef3
5f2489949b2020e527/us_nhd.py#L234) but it's not 100%

No way is perhaps a bit strong, no fully reliable way would be more
accurate.