On 8/31/18 5:58 AM, Rihards wrote: > > It gives us the same press as some vandals messing with wikipedia - > let's not see it as a worse thing than it is. > > As a sidenote, this was detected and revert in OSM in a day. If data > consumers would update the data more frequently, the impact would be > much, much smaller (in this specific case, probably nobody would have > noticed). update frequency is a real issue. i recently encountered issues with outdated maps in an OSM based GPS application, and when i went to edit, found that someone was keeping all the new construction at WDW in Orlando up to date - it was just that the GPS app wasn't pulling new maps frequently enough to keep up with reality.
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