[OSM-talk] NASA sites

[Ethan Nelson]

I would agree with leaving NASA out of the name=* tag as we similarly don't name Fort Meade as ''United States Army Fort George G. Meade'' [0]. One exception to having NASA in the name is the headquarters building in downtown DC [1], but GSFC should probably have NASA removed from its name= field to be consistent with the others.


> It remains to solve the JPL case, where the operator is the Caltech but it is a NASA center (http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=198909689)


For JPL, Caltech is indeed currently the operator under contract from NASA. That is prominently noted in publications [2] and is already listed in OSM under the operator= tag [3]. Perhaps adding an owner= tag with NASA as the value can reflect the situation. Do note that the note= tag on the JPL way [3] also already details this information.


Best,

Ethan


[0] http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/133445

[1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/48037371

[2] http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/MWR-D-11-00087.1#page=17 (last sentence in acknowledgements)

[3] http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/374485271

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