Richard Welty <[email protected]> writes: > there is some bad data in the GNIS import. when i encounter obviously > bogus objects from the GNIS import, i just delete them. just the other > day i deleted a GNIS object which suggested someone had a heliport in > their back yard a little south of Albany NY. i didn't see a heliport.
There is some bad data. But old place names are usually actually ok (if misplaced a bit). Foo Station or Foo Depot is often where the railroad (or some highway in the 1800s) came close to a town, and it may still be a name locals know even if currently no one lives there. For an unpopulated place name: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Locality It's worth remembering that in the US the GNIS (well, the Board of Geographic Names) is the definition of place names, at least for Federal purposes. So it being in GNIS is a measure of reality, because they are the naming authority. For heliports, I agree with Richard - I've seen a fair number of questionable ones.
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