On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Theodin <theo...@posteo.de> wrote: > OK. It says the same on the GNIS-Wiki-page so Im going to do that in the > future. Although it might > be a valid information for history-buffs to get an image of how things were.
We don't store historical information in OSM. There are other projects which do, but OSM looks at what's currently in the ground. Also, gnis tags are notiously wrong by large distances, sometimes up to 1km. They're a classic example of the kind of data that, once imported, people are afraif to touch. I had to explain to a mapper recently who knew that a school wasn't present where the map said it was, that it was allright to delete it. He'd been to the location himself and found out that it wasn't a school at all, but it was a drug rehab center! Despite having been there and knowing this, he was afraid of "messing up the import". This was an OSMer who'se been an active contributor for years. This is why imports can have "dangerous side effects". - Serge _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
