Ok Serge,thanks for the encouragement! I have seen schools in the middle of the forrest in a natural park so chances are big there never was a school at that location at all . Ever. :)
Thanks, Theodin Am 04.03.2014 15:32, schrieb Serge Wroclawski: > On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Theodin <theo...@posteo.de> wrote: >> OK. It says the same on the GNIS-Wiki-page so Im going to do that in the >> future. Although it might >> be a valid information for history-buffs to get an image of how things were. > We don't store historical information in OSM. There are other projects > which do, but OSM looks at what's currently in the ground. Also, gnis > tags are notiously wrong by large distances, sometimes up to 1km. > > They're a classic example of the kind of data that, once imported, > people are afraif to touch. I had to explain to a mapper recently who > knew that a school wasn't present where the map said it was, that it > was allright to delete it. > > He'd been to the location himself and found out that it wasn't a > school at all, but it was a drug rehab center! Despite having been > there and knowing this, he was afraid of "messing up the import". > This was an OSMer who'se been an active contributor for years. > > This is why imports can have "dangerous side effects". > > - Serge > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
