On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 at 10:40, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <tagging@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > Apr 25, 2024, 14:20 by fernando.treb...@gmail.com: > > Considering that requiring local surveys in Antarctica would lead to > an empty map and that assuming that governments are always lying would > prevent us from importing government data > > please reread message you are responding to > > "without any verification based on primary sources (local observations, > satellite/aerial imagery, ground photos" > > using satellite or aerial imagery or ground photos does not require visiting > such place in person
To avoid misunderstandings, I should clarify that I was responding to the doubts raised by the following (complete) message in the context of the topic of this thread: > The percentage of things mapped in the Antarctic in recent years that is > based on secondary sources (government/institutional publications, wikipedia > etc.) without any verification based on primary sources (local observations, > satellite/aerial imagery, ground photos) is rather high - in a way that in > the long term would become a serious problem for OpenStreetMap. > Having looked at a lot of satellite imagery from the Antarctic over the years > i can clearly say that a lot of claims that are being made about 'roads' in > the Antarctic - in OSM or in Wikipedia - do not hold up in scrutiny against > primary source evidence. And in such cases you'd have to ask yourself: Do > you want OSM to represent the observable reality on the ground or do you want > it to reflect the major consensus narrative of a certain cultural sphere. -- Fernando Trebien _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
