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Colin doesn’t seem to be advocating for deference to and worship of authorities in all situations. That’s an over the top interpretation. <div><br></div><div>It’s maybe better to say that it’s something to consider when evaluating data — as we always look at a mappers context in OSM when looking at edits and revisions.<div><br></div><div>Side point<div><br></div><div>> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> we *are* a project of hobbyists and volunteers</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">and professionals. And students and researchers. And anyone else who wants to participate in an open map. Been that way since the beginning.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Let’s not cut ourselves short in comparison to “professional” tools. Many of the software tools we’ve developed as a community are leading the industry. <br></span><br>Mikel<br><p class="yahoo-quoted-begin" style="font-size: 15px; color: #715FFA; padding-top: 15px; margin-top: 0">On Wednesday, February 12, 2020, 4:42 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik@remote.org> wrote:</p><blockquote class="iosymail"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">On 2020-02-12 10:28, Colin Smale wrote:<br clear="none">> Where a boundary coincides with the centre line of<br clear="none">> a road for example, and there is a discrepancy in OSM between the<br clear="none">> locations of the two, there should be a recognition that the<br clear="none">> professionally surveyed locations are more likely to be correct<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I disagree.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">What you are requesting here is that we blindly defer to authorities. "I<br clear="none">cannot verify this - but a professional surveyor with his $10k equipment<br clear="none">claims it is so - hence I guess I have to believe it."<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I think this is not how OpenStreetMap should be operating. I can see how<br clear="none">to a professional surveyor the idea must be painful that someone comes<br clear="none">along with their rubbish equipment and makes a change, but we *are* a<br clear="none">project of hobbyists and volunteers, and something that a hobbyist and<br clear="none">volunteer cannot verify ("don't touch this unless you invest $10k in<br clear="none">equipment first!!!") should not be in OSM, and we should not worship<br clear="none">precision that we cannot create ourselves.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Bye<br clear="none">Frederik<br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">Frederik Ramm ## eMail <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:frederik@remote.org" href="mailto:frederik@remote.org">frederik@remote.org</a> ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33"<div class="yqt6752271821" id="yqtfd88560"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">talk mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org" href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org">talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk</a><br clear="none"></div></div><blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div></div></div>
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