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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 24/05/2015 5:09 PM, Bryce Nesbitt
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 3:54 AM,
Richard Z. <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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class="">On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 09:52:06PM -0700, Bryce
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> 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>
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<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it's a flat that the OSM data is out of date.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>
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<div>What it kicks out primarily are lots of restaurants
that are in OSM but out of business.</div>
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<div>The damage stuff however has no such cross check. It
will likely rot in the OSM database,<br>
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<div>getting more and more unverifiable.<br>
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If the 'stuff' was entered as functional at first .. why is it
verifiable then and unverifiable simply because it has changed to
damaged? <br>
Because it cannot be check remotely is no reason to decry the entry
of the data. <br>
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I think that stuff that cannot be verified by web searches is
actually more valuable .. because it cannot be easily found by other
means. <br>
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Not all business maintain a website .. they may start one to see
what it is like .. but drop it after some time. That does not mean
they are out of business. <br>
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