Hi, > If one person observed a parking lot, but didn't have time to log the > boundaries of the lot, and just placed a node with the corresponding > tag, then later another person comes along and logs the boundary of the > parking lot, and puts an area out of that data into the DB, he shouldn't > delete the node another person made.
I'm not sure. Currently I would delete it. Not to please the renderers, but as I see it as redundant data. > Maybe that person is using the data > from the DB to keep a POI record of parking lots. I do POIs and my tool currently only can do nodes. If parking lots are replaced by areas, I need to fix my tool. > He might be the only > one doing so, but thats still one of the forces of the OSM project - Log > it, tag it, put it into the DB - even if you are the only person ever > going to use that data. OSM is wiki style. If someone comes along and refines an area, it may simply happen that the node disappears as soon the area is created. I agree that anyone can put data into the db, but it's not there for eternity but to be modified. And modification also means deletion. > So IMHO it's up to the rendering engines to render the data smartly. > It's not the rendering engines that decide what should be put into the DB. Seconded. Best regards, ce _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
