[Talk-us] NYC Name Vandalism

[Richard Welty]

On 8/31/18 5:58 AM, Rihards wrote:
>
> It gives us the same press as some vandals messing with wikipedia -
> let's not see it as a worse thing than it is.
>
> As a sidenote, this was detected and revert in OSM in a day. If data
> consumers would update the data more frequently, the impact would be
> much, much smaller (in this specific case, probably nobody would have
> noticed).
update frequency is a real issue. i recently encountered issues with
outdated maps in an OSM based GPS application, and when i went
to edit, found that someone was keeping all the new construction
at WDW in Orlando up to date - it was just that the GPS app wasn't
pulling new maps frequently enough to keep up with reality.

richard

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