On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 01:08:35PM +0200, Tomas Straupis wrote: > This is a very good example of possibly misleading reflection. > What if a driver is stopping in unofficial position somewhere > outside of large city to let local people he knows out/in even when > there is no official stop? > What if a national park had a small sign in the forest track and the > sign was not moved when national park boundaries have moved? > I had an actual situation 5 or so years ago when an address was > mapped in Vilnius. Address does not exist in official records. The > user sent me a picture of this house number. I contacted municipality > ant they explained that the sign is not an official one, it means > nothing, there is no such address.
There is no such address in municipal records. Does not mean a lot
in 95% of the World. In the other 5% of the World it means someone
is using an inofficial address. Still it works. So we document its
existance by mapping it. We are not a replica of some other dataset
which is as error prone as ours.
Flo
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