Perhaps I phrased it wrong - they're not a consumer of OSM data as a whole, but a better wording is that the import was done in a manner to allow keeping GNIS data in OSM in sync with GNIS, as well as updating GNIS data with updates from OSM data.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/USGS_GNIS Keeping them synced won't be trivial, but since it's mostly POI data, it's a thousand times easier than keeping OSM synced with updated TIGER data. -------------------------------------------------- From: "Richard Weait" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 8:00 AM To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] Church, or not? > On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Mike N. <[email protected]> wrote: > > [ ... ] >> GNIS is one of the consumers of >> OSM data, so they will eventually correct a POI location after we update >> it. > [ ... ] > > Interesting. Is this so? Where can I find out more? _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
