On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: [..] > > are you sure that _all_ of them changed their signage and continue to > operate? We have had a similar issue of a drug store chain in Germany > (Schlecker) which went bankrupt in 2012 ( > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlecker ) and some mappers wanted to > close all of their shops in OSM as well. > > Only after some time and discussion it became clear, that there were > lots of exceptions (e.g. the shops outside of Germany, and some > XL-shops inside Germany as well), so an automated edit would have > introduced a lot of errors. The conclusion was to better have an > outdated information (which can be more easily recognized from remote > to be outdated) then an automatically created apparently correct > information which had never been checked by someone with local > knowledge and might therefor be wrong, but no more automatically > detectable. >
Wow, I am gone from Europe one year and Schlecker goes bust! Incredible! I agree that the risk of introducing new errors outweighs the benefits of bulk renaming / retagging. What you could also consider is adding a FIXME or NOTE tag with appropriate call to action. Martijn -- martijn van exel http://oegeo.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
