[Talk-us] NHD tags

[Jason Remillard]

Anybody care about NHD tags????

The geometry is very rough on the import. I guess it's OK to delete
the NHD tags while fixing up the geometry?

On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Jason Remillard
<remillard.jason at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I came across my first NHD imported data set this weekend, in Western MA.
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/43638395
>
> It has the following tags.
>
> NHD:ComID = 7711652
> NHD:FCode = 39004
> NHD:FDate = 1999/09/06
> NHD:FTYPE = LakePond
> NHD:GNIS_ID = 00212194
> NHD:GNIS_Name = Lake Winnemaug
> NHD:RESOLUTION = Medium
> NHD:ReachCode = 01100005003135
> gnis:feature_id = 00212194
> name = Lake Winnemaug
> natural = water
> source = NHD
>
> The NHD wiki is pretty confusing. Is there is any kind of consensus on
> how NHD data *should* look inside OSM?  Should any of these NHD tags
> even be maintained inside OSM?
>
> Also, the GNIS id is prefixed with 2 extra zero's. Is that OK, or
> ideally would that be fixed too?
>
> Thanks
> Jason.