So these are not even the "shop owners" themselves which are spamming us with useless information?
Jo 2013/12/4 Serge Wroclawski <[email protected]> > Steve, > > You're right, in theory, but there's a bunch that Frederik has omitted. > > First, the coinmap people have not merely been documenting places, but > doing whole copying from map to map. They even had a video on how to do it, > but that's gone. > > Secondly, they don't verify the information they add. They are working off > lists of places which they simply enter into OSM. > > Thirdly, the problem with this view on mapping "Someone will fix it later" > is that it shift responsibility downward. OSM is predicated on doing the > best you can do at the moment. It may not be perfect, but we've seen a > number of import efforts (coinmap included) which use bad practices for > finding and placing locations, or using bad tags. > > Put another way- this is an import that was done without the import > process, and if it had gone through the process, we would have judged it > technically lacking (and possibly not usable license-wise). > > - Serge > > > On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 2:55 AM, Steve Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> However, in the case at hand, it seems that the interest is not to >>> improve OSM but instead we're just a vehicle for people to show up on >>> >> >the "coinmap", a business directory for bitcoin-accepting businesses. >> >> I don't think we should worry about people's motivations. What's the >> problem here? That there are business POIs in OSM that are missing tags. It >> doesn't sound all that different to me from any other data quality problem. >> Either we fix the missing tags (if possible), or delete them as junk. And >> if the business in question doesn't deserve a mention in OSM (eg, a mail >> order place with no shop front), again, just delete it. >> >> No? >> >> Steve >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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