[Tagging] Highway classification in Antarctica

[Fernando Trebien]

On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 at 10:40, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
<tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> Apr 25, 2024, 14:20 by fernando.trebien at gmail.com:
>
> Considering that requiring local surveys in Antarctica would lead to
> an empty map and that assuming that governments are always lying would
> prevent us from importing government data
>
> please reread message you are responding to
>
> "without any verification based on primary sources (local observations,
> satellite/aerial imagery, ground photos"
>
> using satellite or aerial imagery or ground photos does not require visiting
> such place in person

To avoid misunderstandings, I should clarify that I was responding to
the doubts raised by the following (complete) message in the context
of the topic of this thread:

> The percentage of things mapped in the Antarctic in recent years that is based on secondary sources (government/institutional publications, wikipedia etc.) without any verification based on primary sources (local observations, satellite/aerial imagery, ground photos) is rather high - in a way that in the long term would become a serious problem for OpenStreetMap.
> Having looked at a lot of satellite imagery from the Antarctic over the years i can clearly say that a lot of claims that are being made about 'roads' in the Antarctic - in OSM or in Wikipedia - do not hold up in scrutiny against primary source evidence.  And in such cases you'd have to ask yourself:  Do you want OSM to represent the observable reality on the ground or do you want it to reflect the major consensus narrative of a certain cultural sphere.

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Fernando Trebien