[Talk-us] dubious church node

[Ed Hillsman]

In my mapping in Albuquerque, I have come across a number of GNIS nodes tagged as churches or schools, in built-up areas, that I am unable to find on the ground anywhere near the coordinates. I’ve researched a few of them and found that they did exist at one time or another but have been demolished or incorporated into newer facilities. So I’ve added a note to these that they are “historic” but that I can’t pin down their location. Otherwise, I’ve left them alone, figuring someone with more knowledge of local history can figure out where they were located.

Ed Hillsman


> On Sep 29, 2017, at 5:26 PM, John F. Eldredge <john at jfeldredge.com> wrote:
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> 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>. 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> 
> ele <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> 	1306749
> gnis:state_id 	47
> name <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:name?uselang=en-US> 	Mill Creek Church
> religion <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:religion?uselang=en-US> 	christian <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 "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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