<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 3:54 AM, Richard Z. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ricoz.osm@gmail.com" target="_blank">ricoz.osm@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 09:52:06PM -0700, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:<br>
> Note that just because you can collect some data, does not make it a good<br>
> idea to put in OSM. Maintenance is harder than collection: and who's going<br>
> to go back three years after the HOT event and clean up?<br>
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</span>same is even worse with other data like phone=*<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>Phone is an interesting one.</div><div>I view it as helpful.</div><div>When the phone number or website change registration, it's a flat that the OSM data is out of date.</div><div>In my website tag checker, I load the website given and look for the phone number.</div><div><br></div><div>What it kicks out primarily are lots of restaurants that are in OSM but out of business.</div><div><br></div><div>---</div><div>The damage stuff however has no such cross check. It will likely rot in the OSM database,<br></div><div>getting more and more unverifiable.</div></div></div></div>