Re: [Talk-us] GNIS Import

2009-04-11 Thread Alan Millar
There's a copy tags feature in JOSM that doesn't seem to work. That's about the only way I know of right now. Pasting tags from node to way did not work for me, as recently as just a few weeks ago. However, I tried it just now on the current version 1515 and it worked. If there are tags on

[Talk-us] GNIS Import

2009-04-10 Thread Adam Schreiber
Is there an easy way to merge the tags from the nodes to areas that have already been mapped? I just noticed a lot of nodes show up for buildings at my university. Cheers, Adam ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS Import

2009-04-10 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Adam Schreiber sa...@clemson.edu wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Adam Schreiber sa...@clemson.edu wrote: Is there an easy way to merge the tags from the nodes to areas that have

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS Import

2009-04-10 Thread Joseph Jon Booker
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:01:08 -0500 Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: There's a copy tags feature in JOSM that doesn't seem to work. That's about the only way I know of right now. Perhaps it is similar to potlatch, which only allows you to copy way tags to other ways, and nodes to other nodes.

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS Import Done

2009-03-13 Thread Karl Newman
While GNIS might not be perfectly accurate in geoposition, it is the authoritative set of geographic names for the US. It contains features that are on no other map or spatial database. Until now, anyway. ;-) Karl ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS Import Done

2009-03-13 Thread David Lynch
If you go to the Board of Geographic Names site (http://geonames.usgs.gov/), it indicates that all elevations are from the National Elevation Dataset. (Which is probably what Garmin uses as well.) NED doesn't really have the spatial resolution to resolve features as small as the exact tops of

[Talk-us] GNIS Import Done

2009-03-12 Thread Ian Dees
Hi everyone, I completed the GNIS node import yesterday. Please see the wiki page [1] for more details. As several of you have messaged me and posted on this list, there are some problems with this data. Let me try to explain my thought process: 1. Since the resolution of the information is

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS Import Done

2009-03-12 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Adam Schreiber sa...@clemson.edu wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: 3. If there are already OSM features in your area for a certain node that I

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS Import Done

2009-03-12 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Ted Mielczarek ted.mielcza...@gmail.comwrote: Yeah, I deleted quite a few POIs for things that no longer exist. Sorry if I sounded mad in my message. :) I still question the value of this data given my (brief, informal) survey of what it brought to my local

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS Import Done

2009-03-12 Thread Matt Maxon
Ian Dees wrote: that we can send back to the GNIS board, who has the option of putting it back into their data set. 3. If there are already OSM features in your area for a certain node that I imported, feel free to delete my node, but please merge at least the gnis:feature_id tag from the

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS Import Done

2009-03-12 Thread Matt Maxon
Ian Dees wrote: that we can send back to the GNIS board, who has the option of putting it back into their data set. 3. If there are already OSM features in your area for a certain node that I imported, feel free to delete my node, but please merge at least the gnis:feature_id tag from the

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS Import Done

2009-03-12 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Matt Maxon o...@mattmaxon.com wrote: Ian Dees wrote: that we can send back to the GNIS board, who has the option of putting it back into their data set. 3. If there are already OSM features in your area for a certain node that I imported, feel free to

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS Import Done

2009-03-12 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:43 AM, David Lynch djly...@gmail.com wrote: Another thing I'm seeing as I look around is duplicates and near-duplicates (Zavala School vs. Zavala Elementary School, for instance.) For now, I'm putting both feature IDs into one point, separated by a semicolon. Does

Re: [Talk-us] GNIS Import Done

2009-03-12 Thread Matthew Schneider
If you know that Zavala School and Zavala Elementary School are the same thing, then you should delete the less correct node (along with its gnis:feature_id). That would eventually push a delete the less correct data point change into GNIS, which is a good thing I think. I hope soon to