[Talk-GB] Mistagging of old telephone boxes
Michael Booth
boothym at gmail.com
Fri Dec 22 22:16:49 UTC 2017
Could be using Geograph - the phone box in this photo -
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5273398 - was added here:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5286350516
Though as the caption says, it's slated for removal due to lack of use
(photo taken in January 2017) so a bit pointless to add it if you are
haven't surveyed it.
On 22/12/2017 21:41, Dave F wrote:
> Hi
>
> FYI user Yorvik Prestigitator has been tagging telephone boxes across
> Britain. He assumed some of these are working phones & tagged them as
> such, when they're purely ornamental (the ones in my city are recent
> additions & have flowers growing out of them at the moment).
>
> When asked for his data's source for this widespread edit & he said
> "old photographs". I've asked a couple of times to give further
> details, but has not been forthcoming & has added additional ones
> since. I've checked to two usable 'streetview' websites, but there's
> no views for the edits I checked. I hope he's not using GM. Is there
> another source I'm not be aware of?
>
> DaveF
>
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