On 5 Aug 2010, at 14:43 , Alan Mintz wrote: > At 2010-08-05 11:52, Ian Dees wrote: >> ... >> It isn't any different. I had made the (bad) decision at the time to import >> over any existing data because in the several hundred places I spot-checked, >> NHD was vastly superior in resolution (and probably quality). > > By "import over", do you mean to add duplicates, replace the existing > features, or merge the info from the two manually? > > As I manually survey various features (POIs, some hydro, etc.), I usually try > to merge in the data from existing imports so as to maintain the link (e.g. > gnis:feature_id) back to the original database, in case we want to exchange > updates with them again. >
this is impossible due to the license terms, > One thing that occurs to me that may be a problem is that I occasionally have > to delete a feature that is no longer present (e.g. > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/358808220). If we were to feed an > update back to GNIS or get one from them, this situation would have to be > taken into account. > > -- > Alan Mintz <alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net> > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
