On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Ian Dees <ian.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Adam Schreiber <sa...@clemson.edu> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Ian Dees <ian.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 3. If there are already OSM features in your area for a certain node
>> > that I
>> > imported, feel free to delete my node, but please merge at least the
>> > gnis:feature_id tag from the GNIS data so that we can keep track of
>> > future
>> > name changes.
>>
>> What about features that are polygons in OSM but nodes in the GNIS data?
>
> Since all features in GNIS are nodes, I will just take the centroid of the
> polygon to be the point that might end up in GNIS. Feel free to apply the
> gnis tags to polygonal ways.
>
> The more important data I think would be changes to the name or
> classification and whether or not it even exists.

Will you also be grepping the planet dump for features GNIS includes
but doesn't have an item for?

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