An argument could be made for deleting anything that isn't a road, given that 
the project is called Open_Street_Map. Rather than concern myself with what 
belongs and what doesn't, I operate on the principle that if it is geographic 
data, isn't spam, and someone thought it interesting enough to map, it belongs. 
The data in question is as valid a POI as anything else a person might want to 
navigate to.

Far more DB space is taken up by building outlines and similar things that 
aren't by any means necessary for a street map than by these explosion sites. 
To my mind there is a stronger argument for better tagging of this data than 
there is for removing it completely, at least with regard to the objects that 
reflect physical traces left by the tests.

I have a very difficult time understanding the deletionist mindset. It's not as 
if the objects that are not of interest to you are evicting objects that do 
interest you. If you run a DB server, there is nothing stopping you from 
choosing not to ingest objects you consider irrelevant.

On April 15, 2015 1:24:08 PM EDT, Bryce Nesbitt <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 7:09 AM, Pavel Machek <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I agree. It does not cause any problems to keep this data, and it is
>> very small data set. Just keep it.
>
>I think this illustrates the point that it's very easy to add
>questionable or low quality data to OSM,
>and very hard to gain consensus to remove it.
>
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