[Talk-GB] Subject: Re: Thomas Cook shops

[Dave F]

On 29/09/2019 14:30, David Woolley wrote:
>
> I think too much effort goes into these big changes.

The actual change is dead easy in JOSM. It's all this faffing about 
having to discuss it that takes up all the time.
As I said in another thread this increasing reluctance to 
removing/updating data while allowing _anyone_ to add data is 
detrimental to the OSM database. Take the new quarterly project as an 
example - anonymous users are allowed to add notes, but are unable to 
delete.

> The real problem with business directory mapping on OSM is that people 
> like doing the first time mapping of shops on a high street but no one 
> likes maintaining them.

This thread is *specifically* about maintaining.

> The number of shops that are wrong because of churn or small 
> businesses, or individual closures of chain shops is probably orders 
> of magnitude more than the ones that get lots of publicity.

Preventing the mass (hardly "mass" though) edit of Thomas Cook & instead 
relying on individuals to update *will* guarantee more shops will be 
"wrong".

The benefit of a one changeset edit is that it would be extremely easy 
to update if there's an (unlikely) change in the firms fortunes.

>
> I doubt that many people are going to get misled by a Thomas Cook or 
> Maplins store that remains mapped, but many may be misled by the loss 
> of a specialist store that didn't make the national press.

Unsure what you mean by "misled", but surely if any shop that's 
incorrectly tagged will inconvenience someone if they use OSM to plan 
their visit?

DaveF