Andy Allan wrote: > I believe we need to track these false positives. If Ipswich is any > guide, and there is about a dozen errors per town, then there is going > to come a point where we are all repeatedly examining the same false > positives trying to track down the remaining few actual mistakes in > OSM. So we need to track them, and we want to make sure that mappers > notice that someone else has already marked the false positives. How > do we make sure that such record keeping works with ITO, and Robert > Scott's tool, and any other tool that compares OSM and OS Locator? How > do we make sure that all the mappers are aware of the situation, > whether they are using potlatch or JOSM (or merkaartor, or potlatch2, > or osm2go, or mapzen, or...). > > Having thought about the situation, I think that adding the not:*=* tags is only like other metadata tags like source=*, note=*, fixme=* etc. It will be used on a modest number of places. It provides a means of signalling many different difficulties, even the nonames problem which still lingers. So in spite of my original reservations I now feel this is a useful tag, and quite possibly useful beyond OS data.
Sorry for the noise. Cheers, Chris _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
