[Tagging] Damage Assessment Tags - Would like feedback on a schema

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Sun May 24 07:19:01 UTC 2015


On 24/05/2015 5:09 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 3:54 AM, Richard Z. <ricoz.osm at gmail.com 
> <mailto:ricoz.osm at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 09:52:06PM -0700, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
>     > Note that just because you can collect some data, does not make
>     it a good
>     > idea to put in OSM.  Maintenance is harder than collection: and
>     who's going
>     > to go back three years after the HOT event and clean up?
>
>     same is even worse with other data like phone=*
>
> Phone is an interesting one.
> I view it as helpful.
> When the phone number or website change registration, it's a flat that 
> the OSM data is out of date.
> In my website tag checker, I load the website given and look for the 
> phone number.
>
> What it kicks out primarily are lots of restaurants that are in OSM 
> but out of business.
>
> ---
> The damage stuff however has no such cross check.  It will likely rot 
> in the OSM database,
> getting more and more unverifiable.

If the 'stuff' was entered as functional at first .. why is it 
verifiable then and unverifiable simply because it has changed to damaged?
Because it cannot be check remotely is no reason to decry the entry of 
the data.

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I think that stuff that cannot be verified by web searches is actually 
more valuable .. because it cannot be easily found by other means.

Not all business maintain a website .. they may start one to see what it 
is like .. but drop it after some time. That does not mean they are out 
of business.


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