[OSM-newbies] Tag for accident prone spots

Steve Bennett stevagewp at gmail.com
Sun Jun 5 06:17:04 BST 2011


On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 5:22 AM, Serge Wroclawski <emacsen at gmail.com> wrote:
> There are debates about the appropriateness of such data, similar to
> classifying a neighborhood "dangerous".
>
> It's not ground verifiable; it's subjective, and does not really
> belong in OSM IMHO.

In Australia, at least, the list of such locations is maintained by a
government agency. Inclusion on that list is thus objective. Some of
them are "ground verifiable" by the presence of a sign (although in
general the sign goes up after they fix the problem...)

Steve



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