Scratch this, I realized the FCC's site is giving meters and calling them feet...same problem, wrong culprit.
On 01/30/2011 08:44 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > I just noticed while researching node 357412228 that it has the > following properties (mostly) imported from GNIS: > > Node id=357412228 lat=36.0747997 lon=-95.9005176 (projected: > x=-95.9005176, y=36.0747997); Data set: 4B68BE0E; User: [id:92286 > name:Paul Johnson]; ChangeSet id: 6CCAA4; Timestamp: > 2011-01-30T02:34:15Z, Version: 4 > tags: > "gnis:created"="08/01/1994" > "gnis:county_id"="143" > "name"="KCMA-FM (Broken Arrow)" > "FIXME"="This tower exists, but it's not KCMA." > "gnis:feature_id"="1102236" > "gnis:state_id"="40" > "man_made"="tower" > "ele"="261" > > I added the FIXME, but otherwise it is as it was imported from GNIS. Of > concern: The ele= tag is described in > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ele as being metric value, > however, this was obviously imported as Imperial, and incorrectly at > that (FCC has elevation of 264.3 feet). Clearly 261m isn't the correct > elevation, but it is numerically closer to it's foot value. I'm > wondering if the person who imported GNIS originally has plans to change > ele values that match their GNIS values by > (current ele) * 0.3048 = (corrected ele), and if not, how we should > handle this as a community. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
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