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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Nov 17, 2021, 14:35 by ajt1047@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>On 17/11/2021 09:43, Colin Smale wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div><br></div><div>It's not about local knowledge, it's about *independent* verifiability. The memory, perception or opinion of a local mapper/resident may conflict with more definitive sources (e.g. Governments)<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We need to be careful here, otherwise OSM will contain the equivalent of "we've always been at war with Eastasia" *<br></div><div><br></div><div>Governments of all political stripes (democracies included) regularly tell half-truths and outright lies, including lies that are incompatible with the lies that other governments are telling.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">It also includes not just lies but confusion and simply bad data.<br></div><div dir="auto">Malformed address data, malformed street names, bogus building classification etc etc.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Sometimes weird mix of that like claiming that dried-out river is still flowing.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If "definitive source" conflicts with actual reality it definitely should be disregarded.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">(with some exception like cases of mapping legal state, for example right-of-way in<br></div><div dir="auto">UK are actually defined by government maps. As I understand, if path with right of<br></div><div dir="auto">way is misplaced on authoritative map then right of map is where it is marked on<br></div><div dir="auto">the map even if path never existed there.)<br></div> </body>
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