[Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Update: Advice needed - dispute regarding names in Cyprus

Abigail Brady morwen at evilmagic.org
Sun Nov 11 18:01:36 GMT 2007


On Nov 11, 2007 5:53 PM, Lauri Hahne <lauri.hahne at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think that no account should be suspended solely because of
> actions like this unless the account is mainly used to this kind of
> actions.
>

This is a good question.  Could anyone tell us whether this user has been
doing any actual mapping?

And to counter things like this, I think OSM should make a statement
> like "OSM reflects the world as it is perceived by a person on ground
> at the very location. We only use data available on site and PD maps
> corrected to reflect the contemporary situation."
>

Definitely, we need to write this up and explain the philosophy behind it.

-- 
Abi
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