[OSM-talk] US City Import?

[Colin Marquardt]

Beej Jorgensen <beej at beej.us> writes:

> 1. Many of the cities are named like this: "Frobozztown (historical)". 
> I just drop these, but they could be included if people wanted them 
> (appropriately tagged, somehow).

I guess they could be useful for historians etc., so I would include
them. Maybe as historic=place?

> 3. Some cities are in the OSM database already.  Data duplication,  blah 
> blah.

This is nothing compared to uploading TIGER data over existing
highways.

> 	<tag k="ele" v="1044" />

If this is in feet, it should have a unit. Or be converted to SI
units.

> 	<tag k="census:data_avail" v="yes" />

Do we need this? If you have other "census" tags, this implies
"yes", otherwise, having no "census" tags, it would imply "no". No
information lost.

> Should I do this thing?  :)

Yes please. Thanks :)

Cheers
  Colin