[Talk-us] some GNIS places not showing up in OSM

[Minh Nguyen]

Vào lúc 22:50 2021-05-08, Jason McHuff đã viết:
> Lastly, I note that the Historical Features GNIS category contains
> lots of historical post offices and schools that could be imported,
> for example https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=138:3:::NO:3:P3_FID,P3_TITLE:1165822
> and https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=138:3:::NO:3:P3_FID,P3_TITLE:1124538

Historical features were originally imported into OSM, but many were 
deleted in the years since, and the rest were deleted in 2019, because 
OpenStreetMap aims to represent the present rather than the past. [1] 
Historical schools can sometimes help us identify present-day schools 
that go by a different name, but the presence of potentially confusing 
"(historic)" features on the map, in search results, etc., outweighed 
that occasional value.

It would be interesting to consider whether OpenHistoricalMap should 
import the historic features. In many cases, the description field could 
be parsed to come up with reasonably reliable start_date and end_date tags.

[1] 
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2019-March/thread.html#19336

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