[Talk-us] Retagging hamlets in the US

[Paul Johnson]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 5:08 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com
> wrote:

>
> 2015-03-18 3:48 GMT+01:00 Bryan Housel <bryan at 7thposition.com>:
>
>> (IMO the “Bender’s Corner” hamlet should probably just be deleted
>> outright.  I live near it and there really is no such thing.)
>
>
>
> or maybe keep it as a historical place name, something like place=locality
> and old_name="Bender's Corner"? I agree that this is something local
> mappers with local knowledge should decide upon.
>

I'm inclined to delete or move it to OpenHistoricalMap.  Nonextant places
are annoying at best, dangerous at worst.  Insert anecdote about my father
who likes to take a motorcycle and his wife well into the Mojave, Sonoran
or Cimarron Desert and find random spots on the map hoping to find ghost
towns.  Usually he finds out how broken whatever map it is he's using is.
Granted, dad's smart about it and travels with a lot of gear in case they
gotta tough it out, but he legitimately worries about people who go out
there following a GPS blindly.  I'm trying to get him involved in the
project, if even only by Walking Papers or georeferenced photos and a GPS
tracker, though so far aerial imagery and "Dude, I gotta tell you where I
went on my last trip..." phone calls have been major help in the desert
southwest.
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