Griping about it on the mailing list won't really solve anything. Microsoft can do what they please.
To paraphrase you from another email chain: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_practice#Do_Not_Trace_from_Outdated_Imagery On Jul 25, 2017 1:00 PM, "Christoph Hormann" <o...@imagico.de> wrote: > On Tuesday 25 July 2017, James wrote: > > Maybe you should stick to local mapping/survey the location to assess > > the image quality > > Yes, obviously that is always the best option when possible. But tell > that to all the mappers who re-create buildings that show up in images > although they have meanwhile been demolished or who put a lot of effort > into correcting the course of rivers which have completely changed in > the years since the image was taken. Capture date metadata does not > prevent such mistakes but it can help avoiding them. > > This is ultimately more a convenience thing. Usually it is possible to > pinpoint approximately when an image was taken if you put enough effort > into it - likewise for the DigitalGlobe images which have no recording > date information at all. But this is time-consuming work. > > -- > Christoph Hormann > http://www.imagico.de/ > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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