On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Greg Morgan <dr.kludge...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Serge Wroclawski <emac...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I've been looking at the GNIS data and it's quite a mess. >> > > > This is a horribly crafted proposal. You haven't shown your research why > but you declare the GNIS tags as a mess. Your proposal is as good as me > declaring that all the wikipedia tags are a mess and that they should be > removed. You don't explain why you are dead set on damaging the map. OSM > advertises itself as a the wiki of maps. In wikis there is the concept of > interlinking of wiki data. The beauty of providing a link to the Wikipedia > is that is shows corroboration of the map data. Further more, it allows > people that use the data a way to go to a wiki article and look at more > information. Users of the data have the primary key into another database. > Greg, please watch your language. This is a public forum and we're all equals here working to improve the map. Please refrain from using superlatives like "horrible" and maintain a positive discourse so that we can all enjoy our time working on this volunteer project. -Ian (as talk-us moderator)
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