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 that work for your purposes of
reporting back to GNIS?On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:26, Ian Dees <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:18 AM, David Lynch <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Another what-if tagging situation -- what about places where there are >> two nodes for the same object, one containing an out-of-date name, one >> containing the current name? > > Delete the old (out of date) name and keep the new one. > > If they are the same structure and they have a new name, copy the > gnis:feature_id tag and value over. > > There is a pretty specific procedure that the GNIS board goes through when > coming up with names for things because they want to make everyone (local, > city, state, federal governments and citizens) happy. Keep that in mind when > looking at the difference in names. > -- David J. Lynch [email protected] _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
