<div dir="auto">I'm fairly lucky in that in the last three years nothing much has changed locally. The highways have stayed much the same. Most buildings are still there.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If you use Bing to add things then realistically it fills in gaps in the map. If you delete things because they are not in Bing that is a quite different matter.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Does it matter if the mapper lives more than five miles away? Well I've mapped places a few thousand miles away but they were places I knew very well as I used to live there.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I don't think OSM will ever be completely accurate. Having said that it is still very useful for many purposes.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheerio John</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 29 Dec 2019, 12:31 80hnhtv4agou--- via talk, <<a href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org">talk@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>it say in some wiki. to correct what you find wrong on the map,</div>
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<div>not one<font color="#0000ff"> “other nearby users”</font> is a current mapper, and all edits in a 5 mile radius are not coming from an on the ground</div>
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<div>mappers in my area but 20 miles + away and are tracing from bing, and the images on bing in my local area are from</div>
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<div>2016 so i do not see how the map locally is true, and it is not easy to go and see every thing they have done,</div>
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<div>no car or bike. </div>
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<div>every thing i do is backed up by me on mapillary, and in traces.</div>
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