Ian, I have been wondering if anyone was doing that. The USGS is in the process of redesigning what was GNIS to support other geometries as well.
Do you know if anyone has been removing gnis: tags with any regularity? This is why I'm trying to get the full-planet and not just planet. -Eric -=--=---=----=----=---=--=-=--=---=----=---=--=-=- Eric B. Wolf 720-334-7734 On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Ian Dees <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Eric Wolf <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Has anyone done much work with the OSM full-planet file? If so, can >> you give me some hints? The file is just big enough to make life >> miserable. >> >> What I'm trying to do is look at changes to the USGS GNIS data in OSM. >> I want to convert node data for the US (probably just the lower 48 >> states) into a format that I can work on in ArcGIS. I want to have >> access to historical data. > > Not directly related to your question, but keep in mind that a lot of people > (myself included) have been copying the GNIS metadata tags from nodes to > polygons in situations where it makes sense. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
