Re: [Talk-us] Map Roulette Idea - GNIS "parks"

Mike and all, >There is also a "North Park" (on CO 14 West of Cameron Pass). Yep and Middle Park which is maybe replicated in other states and I’m sure there are these geographic parks in many mountain ranges. >I have always considered these "parks" to have no hard boundary (sort of like

Re: [Talk-us] Map Roulette Idea - GNIS "parks"

Sorry for the delay in responding to the thread I started... On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Russell Deffner wrote: > I am sure you probably know this, but maybe others on the list do not – > if you’ve seen/heard of the cartoon “South Park” – it’s actually named > after

Re: [Talk-us] Map Roulette Idea - GNIS "parks"

Mike Thompson writes: everything not quoted sounds good. > Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a OSM tag to describe “a broad, > flat, mostly open area in a mountainous region", yet I feel that these > names are important pieces of information that should be preserved

Re: [Talk-us] Map Roulette Idea - GNIS "parks"

+1 Great idea. I would think USGS might even be interested in some sort of collaboration to clean up all the GNIS points. -- SEJ -- twitter: @geomantic -- skype: sejohnson8 There are two types of people in the world. Those that can extrapolate from incomplete data. On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 5:25

[Talk-us] Map Roulette Idea - GNIS "parks"

A subset of the the US Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) data was imported into OSM [2]. I have discovered a systematic error in the GNIS. In the US there are at least two different meanings for the word "park" when it comes to things we might map in OSM. The first is a recreational

Re: [Talk-us] Map Roulette Idea - GNIS "parks"

Talk-US Subject: [Talk-us] Map Roulette Idea - GNIS "parks" A subset of the the US Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) data was imported into OSM [2]. I have discovered a systematic error in the GNIS. In the US there are at least two different meanings for the word "park