[Talk-us] GNIS?

[Bryce Nesbitt]

On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Thomas Colson <thomas_colson at nps.gov>wrote:

> Is it preferable to keep the original GNIS tags if updating a GNIS object
> in
> OSM?


I preserve the GNIS id number, even if I convert the feature from node to
way (or vice versa).
I do this not so much for later conflation, but as it acts effectively as a
"source" tag, adding useful
richness to the node history.

The GNIS import created many duplicates: there I tend to merge tags rather
than delete information
someone may have a use for in the future.  We're not sort of disk space,
and it's hard to predict
what's useful later.
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