[Talk-us] GNIS?

[Bryce Nesbitt]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us>wrote:
>
> At last years SOTM-US conference, USGS showed a pilot  program using a
> modified version of Potlatch2 to update GNIS database with volunteers. If
> they use this plan, the id tag could be used to compare OSM with the new
> data. It would us to compare the existing OSM data with the new GNIS data.
> For now I would suggest leaving that tag in OSM.
>

Any conflation (matting of new data to OSM data) should use multiple fuzzy
clues: location, name, type.
The gnis id tag is useful as a fuzzy clue.
Every clue is useful.

I think *keeping* the tag makes sense, even though *depending* on the tag
would be asking too much.
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