Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Mapping of farmland

[Tony]

From http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Verifiability : "Verifiability 
is an important concept to OpenStreetMap. OSM data should, as far as is 
reasonably possible, be verifiable." The land can easily be verified, 
but the names? In most cases they are probably the names used by the 
mapper and his family, but nobody else. More from that page: "... a 
tag/value combination is verifiable *if and only if* independent users 
when observing the same feature would make the same observation every 
time." Most of the names are therefore unverifiable and should 
(eventually) be removed, not re-tagged. However, as others have said, 
let's not lose any sleep over it, and most of all, don't jump down the 
throats of people who are doing their best.

Tony.
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