[OSM-talk] Element on OSM which don't exist in real life

[Greg Troxel]

Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> writes:

> Hi> Same but different for the "Kettleman Station" node, this has been
> imported 5 years ago from a GNIS data set and deserves no more respect
> than the rest - if there's nobody living there then it's likely not a
> hamlet.

It's true that it's not hamlet.  But GNIS defines what names mean
(legally, in the US), and there are 'place names' that refer to
locations, even if those places have no people now.   Unfortunately the
GNIS import blurred this and hamlet.  There are tags for place names
that are not population centers.
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