[Talk-us] Boundaries and verifiability (was Re: Retagging hamlets in the US)

Russ Nelson nelson at crynwr.com
Sat Mar 28 16:57:20 UTC 2015


Serge Wroclawski writes:
 > It's entirely possible that the names the locals use for that river
 > differ from the  government dataset, in which case, OSM would prefer
 > you use the local name as the primary name, and not the official one.

This is the USGS standard for naming in their topo maps.

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