Hi Thomas, I don't know if we/OSM have a policy for dealing with the gnis imported data.
I have been deleting all of the gnis tags except gnis:feature_id. The justification for deleting them is that given the gnis:feature_id and its position, the rest of the tags can be recreated from original data source. Not sure why they were imported. Sometimes I feel like we should not even be maintaining the gnis id. I know other mappers just delete all of the gnis: tags when merging them with other OSM features. I am not sure when the import was done we signed up for maintaining the gnis:feature_id going forward for all of our points of interest. The gnis nodes are usually deleted and merged with another feature, usually a building. The imported gnis node accuracy is not that great, I have seem then several hundred yards off. Don't be afraid of moving them if you know where the node should be with higher accuracy. Also, if you have better elevation data, feel free to update it. For sure, don't leave them alone. Thanks Jason. On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Thomas Colson <thomas_col...@nps.gov> wrote: > Is it preferable to keep the original GNIS tags if updating a GNIS object in > OSM? E.g. updating say the location and elevation, everything else is the > same. In context, GNIS mountain is here, but really it's there (which is > usually the case for GNIS). > > Or, just leave the GNIS object alone, and add a new OSM feature? Not sure > how folks feel about GNIS. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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