Hi, On 05/04/2018 09:10 PM, Brian Prangle wrote: > When will it be appropriate to do a mechanical edit and remove the 47 > instances of this store that can be seen in Overpass? Have they all > closed now? My local one is now closed and leaving a large gap on its > retail park
<usual litany> Obviously-outdated POIs are the standard user interface for maps to signal their age and quality. If you take a paper map today, and it features a chain restaurant that you know went out of business five years ago, you immediately have an idea of how old/trustworthy the rest of the map is. OSM can benefit from this same mechanism. Leave the Toys R Us-es in place until a local mapper re-surveys the area which might include mapping any number of other nearby POIs, updating opening times, and whatnot. It is easy to run a script that removes all the Toys R Us-es, but that script would also destroy the valuable information that this general area of the map hasn't been updated since Toys R Us went bankrupt. If you could run a script that truly updates the map in the area that would be another thing, but you cannot; you can only run a script that removes the obvious "this map is outdated" marker. That might make the map *look* more current but actually it isn't - the script would just be window dressing. </usual litany> Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
