It's crowd-sourced data. Of course it's not reliable. You won't make it more reliable by trying to get people to impose mega-structures.
Better to add further information which you can use intelligently to improve reliability (and which might well be useful for some other purpose) On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Janko Mihelić <jan...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2013/1/29 Richard Mann <richard.mann.westoxf...@gmail.com> > >> The Danube river is perfectly adequately made whole by looking for >> name:en=Danube. Get the computer to do the work, not mappers. >> > > What if there is a little river Danube, somewhere in Ohio? > > I guess other tags like wikipedia=de:Donau might be ok, although it > doesn't sound very reliable. > > Janko > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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