[Talk-GB] Electric vehicle charging points

Nick nick at foresters.org
Tue Jul 21 22:11:04 UTC 2020


Could the data be included in https://osm.mathmos.net/survey/ ?

On 21/07/2020 22:42, Colin Smale wrote:
>
> On 2020-07-21 22:54, Mark Goodge wrote:
>
>> It's the errors which are more of a problem, because it's generally 
>> better not to map something than to map it wrongly.
>>
> This is a difficult point. Data is never 100% complete, and frequently 
> not 100% accurate. At what point it becomes better not to have the 
> thing in OSM at all, is rather subjective.
> If the location was only accurate to ±50m, would it still be good enough?
> If the operator was not tagged, would it still be good enough?
> Is an "imperfect" object in OSM more likely to get corrected than a 
> missing object is to get added? Should I not add a missing object 
> because I cannot be sure of the "operator" for example? Talking about 
> the charging points data set, how can one detect what is an error?
> I would say, get the data out there, and let the world feed back any 
> inaccuracies to the source for inclusion in the next version.
>
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