Another thing I'm seeing as I look around is duplicates and
near-duplicates ("Zavala School" vs. "Zavala Elementary School", for
instance.) For now, I'm putting both feature IDs into one point,
separated by a semicolon. Does that work for your purposes of
reporting back to GNIS?

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:26, Ian Dees <ian.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:18 AM, David Lynch <djly...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Another what-if tagging situation -- what about places where there are
>> two nodes for the same object, one containing an out-of-date name, one
>> containing the current name?
>
> Delete the old (out of date) name and keep the new one.
>
> If they are the same structure and they have a new name, copy the
> gnis:feature_id tag and value over.
>
> There is a pretty specific procedure that the GNIS board goes through when
> coming up with names for things because they want to make everyone (local,
> city, state, federal governments and citizens) happy. Keep that in mind when
> looking at the difference in names.
>



-- 
David J. Lynch
djly...@gmail.com

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