It's becoming clear to me that some of the entries on my local part of OSM are based on old, out of date information, and I've been fixing these as I become aware of them. Some of the entries are easy -- a "Golf Club" marker on what is now clearly an industrial site -- but one I'm unsure about is when a location has a "place_of_worship" designation, but on-site inspection reveals that there is no obvious church there, or even a sign designating one.
I've tried web searching on the names (wondering if the icons somehow got displaced), but that's been very frustrating. It would appear that a lot of "information sites", such as lists of churches offered by religious organizations, take their data from the same obsolete information sources that OSM used; they all point precisely to the place where the OSM "church" icon is, where there is nothing resembling a church (I even found the same thing regarding the "golf club" I mentioned above, on a site offering information to traveling golfers). So here's the question: It's easy enough to tell a golf club from an industrial site just by walking past it, but a "place_of_worship" is perhaps not so clear; could one by located in a private home, with no external markers? If I find nothing but a house at a location where OSM has a place_of_worship icon, can I just delete it? Isaac -- Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate. _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
