Re: [Talk-us] dubious church node

2017-09-29 Thread John F. Eldredge
On 9/29/2017 9:59 PM, John F. Eldredge wrote: On 9/29/2017 8:31 PM, Max Erickson wrote: Yeah, a Google search for "Mill Creek Church nashville" has http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nashvillearchives/millcreek.html as an early result. It says the church building has been

Re: [Talk-us] dubious church node

2017-09-29 Thread Max Erickson
There's a fair chance that a GNIS location is off by a couple miles. A little bit more information from GNIS is available by putting the ID into https://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/ It lists "Mill Creek Baptist Church" as a variant name. From time to time I come across a GNIS entry that is

Re: [Talk-us] dubious church node

2017-09-29 Thread Kevin Kenny
On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 9:33 PM, Mark Bradley wrote: > > In the course of my mapping in the American Midwest, I have come across > several small country churches of GNIS origin that no longer exist. Often > there will be a nearby cemetery, but the church facility is

Re: [Talk-us] dubious church node

2017-09-29 Thread Kevin Kenny
On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 8:18 PM, Ed Hillsman wrote: > In my mapping in Albuquerque, I have come across a number of GNIS nodes > tagged as churches or schools, in built-up areas, that I am unable to find > on the ground anywhere near the coordinates. I’ve researched a few of

Re: [Talk-us] dubious church node

2017-09-29 Thread John F. Eldredge
On 9/29/2017 8:31 PM, Max Erickson wrote: Yeah, a Google search for "Mill Creek Church nashville" has http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nashvillearchives/millcreek.html as an early result. It says the church building has been dismantled but mentions a cemetery, which still exists

Re: [Talk-us] dubious church node

2017-09-29 Thread Mark Bradley
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Re: [Talk-us] dubious church node

2017-09-29 Thread Max Erickson
Yeah, a Google search for "Mill Creek Church nashville" has http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nashvillearchives/millcreek.html as an early result. It says the church building has been dismantled but mentions a cemetery, which still exists nearby the mislocated osm node:

Re: [Talk-us] dubious church node

2017-09-29 Thread Ed Hillsman
In my mapping in Albuquerque, I have come across a number of GNIS nodes tagged as churches or schools, in built-up areas, that I am unable to find on the ground anywhere near the coordinates. I’ve researched a few of them and found that they did exist at one time or another but have been

Re: [Talk-us] dubious church node

2017-09-29 Thread Dave Swarthout
Glad you mentioned that GNIS import, Ian. This isn't a pressing issue but I've been doing considerable mapping in Alaska and encounter GNIS features constantly. Many of them are nodes and refer to mines, usually abandoned mines, and contain tagging that JOSM complains about, for example, using

Re: [Talk-us] dubious church node

2017-09-29 Thread Martijn van Exel
If you are interested in cleaning up some of the GNIS imported features in a more structured manner, we can create a MapRoulette challenge. In fact, there is one already that we can model more of them after. Give it a try: http://maproulette.org/map/2774

Re: [Talk-us] dubious church node

2017-09-29 Thread Ian Dees
The history of the node shows that I created it 8 years ago: http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/356845407/history The gnis tags indicate that it probably came in from my (somewhat misguided) GNIS import back then. If there's no recent information to corroborate the node then feel free to delete

[Talk-us] dubious church node

2017-09-29 Thread John F. Eldredge
OSM Item 356845407 is a node supposedly marking the location of a church named "Mill Creek Church", at coordinates 36.0972810, -86.7027754 . The node history shows two changesets making edits to the node, but no changeset for the