Hi, On 05.05.2018 12:57, Rob Nickerson wrote: > Frederik's view is that a crap map encourages more people to edit.
Not quite. My view is that a crap map doesn't become a non-crap map by erasing one obviously false name, and I was thinking more of our relationship with the map user and not so much of encouraging mappers. But I haven't used the word "crap map". OpenStreetMap is generally great, and it might have the occasional weak spot. What is being suggested here is what a commercial map maker would do: Let's take measures to hide the weak spots of our product, so that we can shine without blemish. But we ware not a commercial map maker. We can afford to, and should, be honest with our map consumers. And that includes admitting that none of our volunteers has had the time to re-visit the area since Toys R Us went belly-up. My view is that the map is actually *better* for the consumer if we are honest with them, because we're including an easily decodable marker about its quality. A marker that even people who cannot use any OSM QA tools will understand without extra training. Rob is of course right that removing the store without re-surveying the area does remove one error from the map and therefore makes it a tiny little bit more correct. I'm just arguing for keeping the error until we can afford to make it much more correct. If that takes a few months then we have to live with that; doing it right takes time and I'm pretty sure that doing it right is one thing our users love us for. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
