[Talk-us] User HomocideBaltimore adding fake / fictional / old data all over Baltimore

[Richard Welty]

On 9/10/15 6:34 PM, Elliott Plack wrote:
> This is very strange! The user HomicideBaltimore has been mapping all
> kinds of buildings around Baltimore that don't exist. They're old
> public housing projects or rowhomes that were razed, but seem to have
> been used on the set of the NBC show Homicide, Life on the Streets,
> shot in Baltimore.
>
> What should I do?
>
try contacting him through the OSM messaging system and ask him what his
intent is.
explain (politely) that OSM is for things that exist now, and there are
alternate ways of
handling historical data (e.g. OHM).

the DWG exists as a last resort, but it is very much a last resort and
they'll want to know
that other means have been exhausted first.

richard

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