On Tuesday 11 December 2018, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > Also, I think you are too fast in discounting the verifiability of > boundaries. Even in the absence of actual marked lines, fences, or > walls, you will often find the "reflections" that you speak of if you > look a bit closer: Which government do I pay my taxes to? Which > police department is responsible for my area? Which local authority > do I get my food stamps from, whatever.
Indeed. Note i have explained to Tomas in length the meaning of the concept of verifiability for not directly physically manifested statements in http://blog.imagico.de/verifiability-and-the-wikipediarization-of-openstreetmap/#comments Using the example of a bus stop without signs or shelter i wrote: > A bus stop, even one without a sign or shelter, can be verified by > observing that a bus regularly stops at the location. There is > nothing in the concept of independent verifiability that limits its > application to physical objects. > > Ultimately most verifiable cultural geography features are related to > human activities and can be verified by either observing these human > activities themselves or physical effects of these activities. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
