On 8/22/20 03:20, Mateusz Konieczny via talk wrote: > Nobody claims OpenStreetMap data contains no mistakes.
There are a lot of cases where OSM data is better than that in Google Maps, Mapquest, Bing Maps, etc. Unfortunately there are also a lot of cases where the converse is true; in particular, we have almost no addressing data save for the few places where dedicated mappers have added it via exhausting on-foot surveys (not to be confused with exhaust*ive* surveys, speaking from experience here) or gotten lucky enough to score a compatible import. To its credit, Vespucci at least tells mappers "object may be out of date" when it has sat unedited for over a year. I have missed out-of-date data sitting right under my nose, the best example of this being the Whitehall Hotel in downtown Houston (finally noticed and fixed a while back). > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Notes are designed as tool allowing to > describe incorrect data that someone is unable or unwilling to fix (and > yes, we have thousands of reports of mistakes) I have also used notes (and seen the notes feature used by others) to quickly note business information that I can't add in Vespucci or another app right then and there. Yes, I do close a lot of my own notes, and I suspect I'm not the only one. -- Shawn K. Quinn <skqu...@rushpost.com> http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrecordquest.com _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk