> It does however show a bigger problem: it's very difficult to notice that something is removed in real-life, and adapt OSM to reflect the reality. Now we know these phones are removed. But the same would hold for all other types of POI.
True that. Luckily, phone boots are shown quite prominently on Osmand. I found two of these phones near home while mapping or navigating with Osmand. How about we make a (quarterly?) "task" to check all phones without an operator? Some of these will be a bit out of our way, but it would be a good opportunity to survey some places where otherwise we wouldn't get. That said, the general problem has two possible solutions : -we make it easier to resurvey. For example by adding tags about when something was last checked. Or by making a map view that shows how old POI data is an area, giving an indication as to how long ago something was mapped -we grow data use and sporadic contributors. More people seeing the data means more people will spot mistakes, hopefully prompting them to correct it. Just like a wrong one-way is a trigger for many newbies now, a wrong POI might be a trigger in the future, once we have almost all POIs.
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