Simone,<br><br>Yes, don't you think the ISBN database managers should open up their data so it can be edited by users?<br><br>;-)<br><br>PY<br><br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/29/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Simone Cortesi</b> <<a href="mailto:simone@cortesi.com">simone@cortesi.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 11/29/06, bvh <<a href="mailto:bvh-osm@irule.be">bvh-osm@irule.be</a>> wrote:<br><br>> My main concern against allowing an unlimited amount of geo information is<br>> * more features means more outdated information (especially
<br>> with quickly changing stuff like wifi zones, shops, etc), harming<br>> the credibility of other information also in the database<br>> (Note missing information is better than wrong information)<br><br>I do agree with you. And to support our common opinion I would like to
<br>point you all to this article, The Persistence of (Bad) Online Data<br><a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/10/the_persistence_of_bad_data.html">http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/10/the_persistence_of_bad_data.html
</a><br><br>This deals with a "simple" mistake in assigning an ISBN to a book that<br>eventually never got published by oreilly, but did by a different<br>publisher.<br><br>--<br>Simone Cortesi<br><br>All that is gold does not glitter;
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