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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Apr 28, 2022, 13:14 by tagging@openstreetmap.org:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On 26/04/2022 10:30, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div><br></div><div>sent from a phone<br></div><blockquote><div>On 25 Apr 2022, at 15:55, Dave F via Tagging <tagging@openstreetmap.org> wrote:<br></div><div><br></div><div>How far back should we go? i live in a Roman city. That's a /lot/ of removed data.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>seems like a red herring to me, or do you have knowledge about all this data back until ancient roman times?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No. And /that's/ the point. As I don't have conclusive knowledge about it, I don't add it.<br></div><div>Presuming is bad for the OSM database.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The 'removed;' prefix is a sticking plaster to cover up the symptoms of a problem, & doesn't prevent the cause.<br></div><div>I wouldn't want OSM to be full of Band-aids.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">Note that you never can be 100% sure unless you map with Vespucci or Go Map!! on site.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Even mapping just next to place where I live I sometimes would map no longer<br></div><div dir="auto">existing building if demolished:building=yes area would be not present.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">(I also consistently remove attempts to map nonexisting features that are not going<br></div><div dir="auto">to be mistakenly mapped)<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div> </body>
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