Re: [Talk-us] GNIS POI populations

2015-01-28 Thread Minh Nguyen
On 2015-01-27 22:42, Greg Morgan wrote: OSM Inspector[1] has a nice tool to check issues with these city/town/village/hamlet POIs. I updated a bunch of the POIs in Arizona to the 2010 numbers. I see that some mappers changed the values to the estimated value. Another mapper would change it

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS POI populations

2015-01-28 Thread Wolfgang Zenker
* Minh Nguyen m...@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us [150128 09:12]: [..] It doesn't sound like Paul was proposing to systematically eliminate place=hamlet POIs. It sounds like he was evaluating each one on its merits. I do delete GNIS POIs fairly regularly, but not just because they're tagged

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS POI populations

2015-01-28 Thread Simon Poole
Am 13.01.2015 um 21:29 schrieb Wolfgang Zenker: ... In Montana I have removed rather than changed these POIs, as they definitely no longer existed before the GNIS import. Removing these for all of the US would be a good thing, especially for hospitals. We definitely don't want people in an

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2015-01-28 Thread Alex Barth
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Re: [Talk-us] GNIS POI populations

2015-01-28 Thread Minh Nguyen
On 2015-01-28 07:52, Simon Poole wrote: According to overpass turbo there is the small number of 394 such nodes (historical hospitals) remaining in the US (excluding Alaska and Hawaii). Given that this is bad data that actually might have disastrous consequences, I would suggest that fixing