On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Nathan Edgars II <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 4/18/2012 3:31 PM, Charlotte Wolter wrote: > >> >> Yes, imported data can create issues like that. The same thing happens >> with schools. Yes, it takes some effort to separate them and move them >> to their correct locations, but I think it's worth it. It's better to >> have the data than not. >> What do other people think? >> > > I think that, given the large number of errors, schools and churches > should not have been imported from GNIS. > > It's interesting if you look these up on the GNIS site. What's the source > for them? Well, they got a local phone book and looked up schools and > churches :) Most of these came from scanned USGS maps. In some cases they were OCR'd and in other cases they were typed in by a human. I believe those maps had similar symbology for a "historical" POI and "current" POI, thus all the old/out of date information.
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