On 5 May 2018 10:02:01 BST, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: >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Obviously-outdated POIs are the standard user interface for maps to 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removes the obvious "this map is outdated" marker.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> >
I agree with Frederik wholeheartedly. -- Chris Hill ( OSM: chillly) _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
