Jim McAndrew, one of the US Board Members, gave a presentation on the USGS National Map Corps project status on June 9th ( http://stateofthemap.us/sunday.html#schedule/sunday/usgs-national-map-corps). I recommend the community work with Jim and his colleagues to ensure the most effective exchange of data updates between OSM and the USGS mapping community.
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us>wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Mike N <nice...@att.net> wrote: > >> At one time, there was a plan for the USGS to use updated GNIS from OSM, >> but I think that plan has become stranded on the island of license >> incompatibility. Therefore, even the GNIS id tag isn't critical IMO. > > > At last years SOTM-US conference, USGS showed a pilot program using a > modified version of Potlatch2 to update GNIS database with volunteers. If > they use this plan, the id tag could be used to compare OSM with the new > data. It would us to compare the existing OSM data with the new GNIS data. > For now I would suggest leaving that tag in OSM. > > > -- > Clifford > > OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > -- John Novak 585-OLD-TOPOS (585-653-8676) http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnanovak/ OSM ID:oldtopos OSM Heat Map: http://yosmhm.neis-one.org/?oldtopos OSM Edit Stats:http://hdyc.neis-one.org/?oldtopos
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