On 15/10/2014 8:27 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Message: 2 Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 23:54:09 +0200 From: moltonel 3x
Combo <[email protected]> To: "Tag discussion, strategy and related
tools" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Tagging] Feature
Proposal - Voting - relation type=person Message-ID:
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On 14/10/2014, Pieren
<[email protected]> wrote:
Third mistake : It is not strictly reserved for "notable" people and
can be used to name all graves in a cemetery (which might be forbiden
in some countries). Privacy is never mentionned. To solve this, you
could enforce a link to wikipedia because they are already an
"encyclopedia" and check people notability
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_%28people%29). And
once you create a link to wikipedia (or wikidata), you don't need the
relation anymore-
I'm wondering about this argument. How does maping information that
publicly available (names on tombstones) constitute a privacy breach ?
In many (most ?) countries, the birth and death registers are publicly
available in the local public office. Genealogists trade data files on
the internet as if they were TV series. If there's a law in some
country preventing that kind of information-gathering, I feel it's
standing on pretty thin ground.
Genealogists will not (or should that be 'should not'?) trade data on living
people .. unless the receiver is related. Most countries have restrictions on
birth, death and marriage records, usually time related ... e.g. births over
100 years ago publicly avalible, otherwise for relatives only. This is in order
to stop identy fraud. People looking for living relatives aproaching
genealogists will usually be refered elsewhere .. e.g. Salvation Army, they
will aproach the living relative/s and see if they are intreasted.
Most grave sights have a registar .. that tells you where a particular person
is burried.
Some have it on the web, you put in a persons name and the location is given ..
possibly with a map.
There are web sites that alow searches for a particular person .. sometimes
even just a surname, '/BillionGraves/','Find A Grave' for example.
They would be my first port of call if looking for someones' grave, not OSM.
I've no objection to the data going into OSM, but is it worthwhile when the
above sites have the data in a searchable form?
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I've been tracing my faimly tree .. that is how I know this stuff first hand...
over 1,000 people and dates back to 1650 ... so far. Not many 'living' on it!
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