On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Mike Thompson <miketh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am encountering the tags SHAPE_Leng, SHAPE_Area, GIS_ACRES on US > National Forests. If I am making other edits to the OSM element in > question, can these be deleted? Converted to some other tag? > Those are leavings from an import. GIS systems often export such information for good reasons. However given that OSM is itself a geographic database, these tags are pure junk in OSM. If there's a primary key from the original source, that has some value, do leave that. Also take a look to see if the shape could be simplified: often thousands of points can be removed without affecting the overall representation.
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