On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Karl Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I think you should import everything. Maybe. I'm not fully versed in the > NHD, and I understand it has some things like flood channels which are > filled only during 100-year floods or something... But even the more obscure > water features might be useful to someone. Anyway, where the OSM tags line > up, use those, otherwise you could invent some tags (like someone mentioned, > hydrology or hydrography as a key name is a possibility, especially for > things like flowlines which probably shouldn't be on the default map). I > think you should always include a nhd:ftype and/or nhd:fcode tag to link > back to the source. Otherwise you might force fit a bunch of fine-grained > NHD categories into one broader OSM tag and then we would lose detail. > I agree. All of the attributes that we get out of the shapefile should be included, except for the lengthkm and areakm2 attributes.
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