> Well, I'm not planning on making a list of all my OSM edits to send back > to GNIS, so I'm hoping the diff or other extract method works out. I'm > finding errors and I'm just fixing them in OSM.
It really should be the impetus of the USGS to mine the OSM for GNIS updates. Don't sweat it. > ID number. Often there would be one node located right on top of the > school building, and the other node on the street in front. (Looks like > perhaps two datasets got loaded into GNIS, one perhaps geolocated by > address? Who knows.) This is very common. It happens at the edges of the 7.5' quad sheets. A feature would be indicated on both sheets but not in exactly the same location. It makes sense when you see the sheets as separate maps - but combined it just looks screwy. > I hope the diff or extract method will be able to capture deletions like > this and feed them back to GNIS. Right now, they probably know there are > duplicates but don't know which one is correctly positioned. Our crack Generally they are both "correctly" positioned because they are point features representing something that's actually a polygon. It makes perfect sense to just keep the first one encountered and throw out the others in a batch import. Then let crowd-sourcing take over! -Eric _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
