While there may be easter eggs in OSM added by some users... I was of the opinion that we do not do this in OSM. I've advised anyone i've ever spoken to on the topic not to put easter eggs into OSM. I was under the impression that the data itself was easy enough to compare to a copy. The use of easter eggs is also questionable. We seem to be going through great lengths to eradicate problems caused by easter eggs (I think there was a forum post relating to roads in Australian commercial maps), why put them into our database when their value is questionable?
Either way, I don't think that easter eggs justify willfully adding fake data to the map. I couldn't be bothered if someone wanted to take a copy of the OSM data, and provide their own modifications in a rendered version, but to put this data into the main OSM database should be discouraged wherever possible. Also, is there not a risk of every newbie wanting their own road? Where do we draw the line? Regards, Brendan Barrett -------------------------------------------------- From: "Elizabeth Dodd" <ed...@billiau.net> Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 1:18 PM To: <talk@openstreetmap.org> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Awards > On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Till Harbaum / Lists wrote: >> But that all doesn't give us a reason to add artificial, misleading and >> useless information to the osm maps. > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Copyright_Easter_Eggs > > -- > BOFH excuse #233: > > TCP/IP UDP alarm threshold is set too low. > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
