[OSM-legal-talk] FW: OSM place name data from Turkey

Simon Poole simon at poole.ch
Mon Apr 29 09:27:10 UTC 2013


Am 29.04.2013 11:14, schrieb Henning Scholland:
> Am 29.04.2013 10:42, schrieb Simon Poole:
>> However in the current
>> case I doubt that there is actually something useful for OSM left once
>> the names are gone.
> If the information "There is a village" stays in OSM, it would be
> useful at all. If you are travelling through Turkey, it's good to
> know, where the next village is. In most cases you find there a little
> store or at least you find there people, that can help you.
>
> I think if a place-node was moved, then at least the place=*is
> verified by another source and could stay in OSM with the new
> coordinates.
>
>
I would agree that there is some value in having "naked" place nodes.
However considering that at best we are talking about 2-3k such nodes
surviving it is a question if doing an  imagery based "add a place"
drive or similar for Turkey after the redaction wouldn't be more efficient.

Simon
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