2009/12/19 Andy Allan <[email protected]>: > I prefer the principle of least surprise when working with OSM data. > The most basic analysis of the data should have the least gotchas > possible. So we should avoid tagging things as "This is a foo. (By the > way, no it's not)" and "This is a baz. (Psst, it was a baz three years > ago, but not any more)" - especially when there are many different > caveats we can put on the information.
I'd love to bury my head in the sand and pretend things are always simple assumptions too, but unfortunately the world has vastly different ideas and you can either accept them or not, but it's clearly obvious some people want to map these types of temporary things, and even past things like the Pompai example. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

