On Nov 8, 2009, at 4:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: > On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Isaac Wingfield <[email protected]> > wrote: >> 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 OSM are based on old, out of date information, and I've been fixing 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? > > I've recently seen some non-traditional places of worship; regular > meetings in hotel conference rooms and what would otherwise be retail > shops. > > I'd fall back to the OSM "observable / verifiable" guidelines. If you > can't point to the sign that proves it on the ground, perhaps it > doesn't belong in OSM. > > Have you contacted the user that added the items to get their > perspective?
I don't know how to find out who that was, but if I highlight the icons the data seems to have gotten there as part of an original "bulk" import from TIGER or something similar; the gnis:create date is 1999. Isaac -- The more secure you make something, the less secure it becomes — Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
