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<div style="16px" text-align="left"><br /></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">10 Dec 2018, 00:33 by ethnicfoodisgreat@gmail.com</div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left">That is an unrealistic, pie-in-the-sky goal. As long as mappers are free to use any tag they like, and OSM is a mishmash of tags, how could anyone rely on it for anything very important?<br /></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">In cases where no better data is available.<br /></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br /></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">For example in Poland firefighters use OSM data for routing and geolocation.<br /></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br /></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Including routing and geolocation during emergencies (112 calls).<br /></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br /></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">As of early 2018 firefighters were not allowed to official road data that in addition in many cases has quality lower than OSM.<br /></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br /></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Also, sole large scale database of fire hydrants is in OSM and it is maintained in large part by firefighters.</div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br /></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">And for such uses using scheme issues are anyway not a major problem.</div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br /></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Seriously, why free form tagging would be becoming suddenly problem for important uses?</div> </body>
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