On 16/08/18 19:26, Christoph Hormann wrote:
On Thursday 16 August 2018, Warin wrote:
As that particular mapper has local knowledge on their side I'd not
challenge them.
Why not?
I would love to see some ground level or aerial/satellite images
documenting the verifiability of those outlines.
The good thing about verifiability and the core of OpenStreetMap in
general is that you don't have to trust some imagined authority about
the data, you can independently verify it.
I try to give people the benefit of the doubt and assume in such cases
they are just ignorant of these principles or do not get why they are
important but with organized efforts like this i can't help but get the
impression there is a certain amount of malice to sabotage or at least
an excessive amount of carelessness.
Satellite imagery is available for the world..
But how much do you know of Africa?
A residential area in Germany or Australia is very different from one in rural
Africa or Asia.
A residential house/home is also very different ..
A fuel station in Africa can be signified by PET bottles strung up in a tree..
or on a fence.
and the fuel comes in those same PET bottles ... no 'gas pumps'. But you get
your fuel.
We should not be imposing our standards on them, but rather accept their
interpretation of what is a house, what is residential, etc.
I would not like to go to that particular area of the world to get ground truth
...
Western CDR ok .. eastern .. ummm ... no thanks.
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