[Talk-us] armchair mappers putting errors back into the map

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Mar 3, 2019, 5:09 PM by rwelty at averillpark.net:

> we've talked about this before, i guess we will never stop talking about it.
>
> i recently noticed in my OSMAnd display that an error got put back
> into the map about 1 mile from where i live. a short dead end
> was put in as a residential road (it's really an unnamed driveway)
> based on NYS GIS data. i removed it years ago (it was in tiger 2007).
>
(...)

>
> what can/should we be doing about this sort of stuff? i'm really
> at a bit of a loss here.
>
When I remove things visible in aerial images or other high quality sources
I often leave geometry with note.

For example on removed power tower (I made edit as crane lowered it,
I just happened to be looking at it outside window) I changed

power=tower node

to

note="power tower visible on aerial images was removed on <DATE>"
survey_date=<DATE>

to keep people from remapping it based on high quality aerial images available for my area.

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I also don't make risky armchair edit in areas with active local mappers.

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Is "NYS GIS data" something that can be considered nearly error free? If not then 
it should not be used for edits without verification with at least high-quality aerial imaged
and this mapper should be reminded about it.

If yes then leaving geometry with note is a good idea.
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