[Tagging] is the wiki descriptive or prescriptive?

Christoph Hormann osm at imagico.de
Wed Nov 17 13:11:02 UTC 2021


On Wednesday 17 November 2021, Colin Smale wrote:
>
> It's not about local knowledge, it's about *independent*
> verifiability. The memory, perception or opinion of a local
> mapper/resident may conflict with more definitive sources (e.g.
> Governments) and all the (un)organised armchair mapping that goes on
> should not be devalued in such a sweeping statement. There's only one
> world out there, but there's a zillion ways of modelling it in OSM.

That depends on your idea of the term knowledge.  In epistemology you 
tend to distinguish between knowledge and beliefs.

Local knowledge and independent verifiability are not two separate 
paradigms, they are just two ways to look at the same thing (with 
independent verifiability being the clearer term usually since 
knowledge - as you indicate - is often interpreted to include 
widespread or authoritive but non-justified and potentially non-true 
beliefs).

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Christoph Hormann
https://www.imagico.de/



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