<div dir="auto"><div>I too disagree with intentionally ignoring outdated information.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">However, we cannot know from our armchairs whether a store is disused but still signed, disused with all signage removed, demolished, or replaced by another business. Because if this we cannot fix the map merely by deleting the relevant shops. That is replacing a blatant errors in the map with less obvious ones.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So I'd support a mechanical edit adding fixme tags, but not mass deletion</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Kind regards,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Adam<br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, 5 May 2018, 12:00 Rob Nickerson, <<a href="mailto:rob.j.nickerson@gmail.com">rob.j.nickerson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">And for the balance: I disagree with Frederik on this one.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If we know the map is wrong we should fix it. We should not leave it just because it may encourage others to fix it and then go on to do other local edits.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Frederik's view is that a crap map encourages more people to edit. I'm not convinced. A crap map could also put people off - "why bother, OSM is so far behind, I'll contribute to/just use Google maps instead"</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I agree that a <b>blank</b> map encourages new mappers, but that was 10 years ago! Less convinced that an out of date map does. At least not with our current homepage or if we do get a new mapper its most likely to be a single edit (maybe with MapsMe) rather than a new prolific mapper. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So I'm happy with this mechanical edit (full removal preferred, but addition of disussed ok too).</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Rob</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">P.s. Do we still have cases of Lloyds TSB in OSM?</div></div>
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