[Talk-GB] Toys R Us

[Dave F]

I concur with this.

I'd much rather have an up to date map. Part of OSM's USP is its quick 
turnarounds.

I disagree with Frederik's claim that changing one entity would "destroy 
the valuable information that this general area of the map hasn't been 
updated".
It seems perverse to want to keep an area of the map inaccurate.

Can't speak for everyone, but I would edit my local one from my 
armchair. No need to visit as all the details are provide online from 
local news feeds.
So individual or mechanical edits make little difference.

On balance I think a store tagged as disused is more likely to attract 
updates than one that's inaccurately tagged as open.

DaveF


On 05/05/2018 11:57, Rob Nickerson wrote:
> And for the balance: I disagree with Frederik on this one.
>
> If we know the map is wrong we should fix it. We should not leave it 
> just because it may encourage others to fix it and then go on to do 
> other local edits.
>
> Frederik's view is that a crap map encourages more people to edit. I'm 
> not convinced. A crap map could also put people off - "why bother, OSM 
> is so far behind, I'll contribute to/just use Google maps instead"
>
> I agree that a *blank* map encourages new mappers, but that was 10 
> years ago! Less convinced that an out of date map does. At least not 
> with our current homepage or if we do get a new mapper its most likely 
> to be a single edit (maybe with MapsMe) rather than a new prolific 
> mapper.
>
> So I'm happy with this mechanical edit (full removal preferred, but 
> addition of disussed ok too).
>
> Rob
>
> P.s. Do we still have cases of Lloyds TSB in OSM?
>
>
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