On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Ian Dees <ian.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. > > I am sorry about that. I thought that I was trying to make a factual response. Regards, Greg
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