I concur with this.
I'd much rather have an up to date map. Part of OSM's USP is its quick
turnarounds.
I disagree with Frederik's claim that changing one entity would "destroy
the valuable information that this general area of the map hasn't been
updated".
It seems perverse to want to keep an area of the map inaccurate.
Can't speak for everyone, but I would edit my local one from my
armchair. No need to visit as all the details are provide online from
local news feeds.
So individual or mechanical edits make little difference.
On balance I think a store tagged as disused is more likely to attract
updates than one that's inaccurately tagged as open.
DaveF
On 05/05/2018 11:57, Rob Nickerson wrote:
And for the balance: I disagree with Frederik on this one.
If we know the map is wrong we should fix it. We should not leave it
just because it may encourage others to fix it and then go on to do
other local edits.
Frederik's view is that a crap map encourages more people to edit. I'm
not convinced. A crap map could also put people off - "why bother, OSM
is so far behind, I'll contribute to/just use Google maps instead"
I agree that a *blank* map encourages new mappers, but that was 10
years ago! Less convinced that an out of date map does. At least not
with our current homepage or if we do get a new mapper its most likely
to be a single edit (maybe with MapsMe) rather than a new prolific
mapper.
So I'm happy with this mechanical edit (full removal preferred, but
addition of disussed ok too).
Rob
P.s. Do we still have cases of Lloyds TSB in OSM?
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