Certainly not. But that's an extreme example of what I have read here, what I have seen in pictures and the (also extreme, unnecessary) actions taken with it.
-- Balaco On Sun, Aug 23, 2015, at 12:49, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > On 08/23/2015 02:27 AM, Balaco Baco wrote: > > I'm sorry. But this is just a stupid thing to do. To have no data and to > > have the most recently obtained data are two very different things. > > I think you're arguing a different case here - one that is also > interesting but about something else, and that's "negative mapping". > > There is indeed a difference between "a road that doesn't have a name in > OSM" (the name might simply not have been surveyed yet) and "a road that > does not have a name in the real world". > > How to signal the fact that the road doesn't have a name, is indeed > something that people think about, and it is useful information not > least because it keeps mappers from unnecessarily trying to find out the > correct name ;) > > The fact "there is no railroad here", however, is not something that I > would consider useful; because where would it end? I'm standing at a > lakeshore - there's no railway here, also there's no forest here, and no > building, and no rugby pitch, no telephone booth, and no power lines. > Certainly you're not suggesting we map all these negatives. > > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- http://www.fastmail.com - A fast, anti-spam email service. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
