On 24/05/2015 5:09 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 3:54 AM, Richard Z. <ricoz....@gmail.com
<mailto:ricoz....@gmail.com>> wrote:
On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 09:52:06PM -0700, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
> Note that just because you can collect some data, does not make
it a good
> idea to put in OSM. Maintenance is harder than collection: and
who's going
> to go back three years after the HOT event and clean up?
same is even worse with other data like phone=*
Phone is an interesting one.
I view it as helpful.
When the phone number or website change registration, it's a flat that
the OSM data is out of date.
In my website tag checker, I load the website given and look for the
phone number.
What it kicks out primarily are lots of restaurants that are in OSM
but out of business.
---
The damage stuff however has no such cross check. It will likely rot
in the OSM database,
getting more and more unverifiable.
If the 'stuff' was entered as functional at first .. why is it
verifiable then and unverifiable simply because it has changed to damaged?
Because it cannot be check remotely is no reason to decry the entry of
the data.
-------------------------------------
I think that stuff that cannot be verified by web searches is actually
more valuable .. because it cannot be easily found by other means.
Not all business maintain a website .. they may start one to see what it
is like .. but drop it after some time. That does not mean they are out
of business.
_______________________________________________
Tagging mailing list
Tagging@openstreetmap.org
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
