Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #9006, comment 4
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- 2013-08-23T18:27:11+02:00 (11 years ago)
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Ticket #9006, comment 4
initial v1 3 3 ''"The [gnis] database assigns a unique, permanent feature identifier, the Feature ID, as the only standard Federal key for accessing, integrating, or reconciling feature data from multiple data sets. The GNIS collects data from a broad program of partnerships with Federal, State, and local government agencies and other authorized contributors, and provides data to all levels of government, to the public, and to numerous applications."'' 4 4 5 The peak preset already has "Wikipedia" link, which is another form of external primary key. Through including the Feature ID attribute I hope to encourage mappers to be more aware of it. There's a lot of bad legacy GNIS data due to past imports: this is part of the work to clean up yet ensure the useful gnis id is preserved. The National Park Service, as a Federal agency, conflates to the GNIS ID and contributes new names to GNIS (that's how the GNIS preset ended up in a Ranger Station preset). 5 The gnis feature ID has been entered into OSM under a half dozen different key names, but gnis:feature_id is the predominant one. 6 Through including the Feature ID attribute I hope to encourage mappers to be more aware of it, and steer them to the main key name. There's a lot of bad legacy GNIS data due to past imports: this is part of the work to clean up yet ensure the useful gnis id is preserved. The National Park Service, as a Federal agency, conflates to the GNIS ID and contributes new names to GNIS (that's how the GNIS preset ended up in a Ranger Station preset). 7 8 The peak preset already has "Wikipedia" link, which is another form of external primary key.
