[Talk-us] Retagging hamlets in the US

[Tod Fitch]

On Mar 17, 2015, at 8:06 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 7:48 PM, Bryan Housel <bryan at 7thposition.com> wrote:
> Brand new anonymous users come to the map every day and are confused by what these hamlets are. 
> proof: https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/163246
> I kind of doubt this person is going to stick around and improve the map.  To them, it just looks like vandalism.
> (IMO the “Bender’s Corner” hamlet should probably just be deleted outright.  I live near it and there really is no such thing.)
> 
> Illustrating: it's easy to add junk to OSM, it takes a lot of courage to remove junk.

+1 on that.

When I come across things I think are wrong but not absolutely sure of it, I just leave it. I suspect that reaction is pretty common.

Tod
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