[talk-au] nodes of a business placed on a road

Graeme Fitzpatrick graemefitz1 at gmail.com
Sat May 27 03:14:34 UTC 2017


The bit that worries me about these 3 listings is that the addresses that
can be found by searching, don't match up with the locations shown

Thanks

Graeme


On 27 May 2017 at 11:08, <forster at ozonline.com.au> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have deleted these in the past, eg https://www.openstreetmap.org/
> changeset/47218168
>
> I believe that they should be deleted on the principle of Verifiability
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Verifiability
> "OSM data should, as far as is reasonably possible, be verifiable ... a
> tag/value combination is verifiable if and only if independent users when
> observing the same feature would make the same observation every time"
>
> I would support deletion if these conditions were all met:
>
> a) it feels wrong (eg a tag in the middle of a road or an empty field)
> b) no address tags in node
> c) their website "Contact" does not include a physical address and
> d) no reply to changeset comments
>
> And as Warin says: Remember this may be their first contact with and
> mapping in OSM ... go easy.
>
> Tony
>
>
> These edits are just nodes of a business placed on a road without a
>> physical building coincidentally mapped.
>> Is this allowed?
>> Does a business need to have a physical building presence to be  included
>> in OSM?
>> If these nodes were placed near the road instead would that be ok?
>>
>> *Corrected link:*   https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/TechTronix%
>> 20Webmaster/history#map=17/-26.52661/153.08892  <
>> http://www.oznativeplants.com/plantdetail/Lawyer-Vine/Calam
>> us/muelleri/zz.html>
>>
>> One is an extra node on top of a junction node.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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