On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 11:03 AM Mateusz Konieczny <[email protected]> wrote: > > There are thousands of objects mistakenly imported to OSM from GNIS. > Objects proposed to be deleted were documented in GNIS database as not > existing at time of the import, but were imported anyway.
I think it would be a good idea if we can recover from this botch. The set of restrictions on what to remove will, I think, save all the work I've done on these nodes. (Near me, there are a lot of '(historical)' schools and churches where I've kept the nodes and tagged the current use of the buildings, but your checks will avoid undoing that.) I started typing a knee-jerk response that the GNIS nodes would be useful, since a great many of the (historical) things represent buildings that are still standing but have been repurposed. Then I had a flash of sanity, and realized that the current use needs to be field-verified anyway, and the historical use isn't really an OSM function, so the "might be useful" is a chimera. I know I've reused at least one (historical) place_of_worship, because a community of a different faith rehabbed the building. But there again, I could have mapped it just as easily without GNIS. (I presume that it's right to keep GNIS tags when remapping? https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=138:3:0::NO:3:P3_FID,P3_TITLE:2425965,First%20Baptist%20Church for instance shows the defunct "First Baptist Church". The building is now https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/491209761 "Guru Nanak Darbar Sikh Temple", but it's the same building.) So my summary is: "I myself wouldn't dare attempt a mechanical edit on this scale, but if you think you can pull it off, and convince enough people that nobody will revert, go for it!" _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
