[Talk-us] dubious church node

[Martijn van Exel]

If you are interested in cleaning up some of the GNIS imported features in a more structured manner, we can create a MapRoulette challenge. In fact, there is one already that we can model more of them after. Give it a try: http://maproulette.org/map/2774 <http://maproulette.org/map/2774>
Martijn

> On Sep 29, 2017, at 5:33 PM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:
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> The history of the node shows that I created it 8 years ago:
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> http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/356845407/history <http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/356845407/history>
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> The gnis tags indicate that it probably came in from my (somewhat misguided) GNIS import back then. If there's no recent information to corroborate the node then feel free to delete it. 
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> On Sep 29, 2017 18:28, "John F. Eldredge" <john at jfeldredge.com <mailto:john at jfeldredge.com>> wrote:
> OSM Item 356845407 is a node supposedly marking the location of a church named "Mill Creek Church", at coordinates 36.0972810, -86.7027754 <http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/36.0972810/-86.7027754 <http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/36.0972810/-86.7027754>>. The node history shows two changesets making edits to the node, but no changeset for the creation of the node. It has these tags:
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> amenity
>         place_of_worship <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity=place%20of%20worship?uselang=en-US <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity=place%20of%20worship?uselang=en-US>> 
> ele <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ele?uselang=en-US <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ele?uselang=en-US>>  145
> gnis:county_id  037
> gnis:created    05/19/1980
> gnis:feature_id <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:gnis:feature%20id?uselang=en-US <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:gnis:feature%20id?uselang=en-US>>        1306749
> gnis:state_id   47
> name <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:name?uselang=en-US <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:name?uselang=en-US>>        Mill Creek Church
> religion <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:religion?uselang=en-US <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:religion?uselang=en-US>>        christian <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:religion=christian?uselang=en-US <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:religion=christian?uselang=en-US>>
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> I became curious about this, as aerial photos in Google Earth do not show a church there. I drove to these coordinates, and determined that they are for a loading dock on the back of an industrial warehouse. There are no signs indicating that any congregation meets there; the warehouse appears to be in active commercial use. Should I remove this node? -- John F. Eldredge -- john at jfeldredge.com <mailto:john at jfeldredge.com> "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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