On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:15 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/7/13 Dave F. <dave...@madasafish.com>: >> On 11/07/2011 22:42, Frederik Ramm wrote: >>> I just stumbled across a changeset where someone helpfully added a >>> "toilet:access=customers" to 1350 pubs in the Greeater London area (thereby >>> adding no information but freshening the time stamp of the objects, giving >>> the cursory visitor the impression that the pub might actually have been >>> resurveyed which it very likely hasn't). > >> This is a perfectly acceptable addition which does add information - that >> it's not a public toilet. You can't just walk in of the street to spend a >> penny. > > > -1 > Unless this person has surveyed the 1350 pubs he doesn't add any > information, because you can already see from the data that the toilet > is inside a pub.
Or it could be an import. >> Why is it a problem getting time-stamped? If it doesn't, how would anybody >> know it's been edited & able to verify it? > > > the timestamp suggests that someone verified the existence of the pub > but in the case of this edit you can absolutely not tell whether that > pub existed at the time the edit was performed, as all pubs were > tagged (e.g. a pub which was closed 2 years ago still seems to be open > as of 2011). You can never tell whether the pub existed at the time the edit was performed. The timestamp of the edit merely suggests that someone verified the existence of the pub *at some time prior to the timestamp*. You don't have to edit OSM from your cell phone while sitting on the toilet you're editing. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk