[Talk-us] Proposed mechanical edit - remove objects that are not existing according to source of GNIS import that added them

[Harald Kliems]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 9:31 AM Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org> wrote:

> The benefit is that it gives mappers a reason to examine places - not just
> the disappeared feature itself but also the area around it - that would
> otherwise go unexamined. Since we have so much unexamined space in the
> U.S., any opportunity to spark mappers’ curiosity about some of that space,
> is a welcome trigger.
>

I have certainly have had that experience when participating in various
MapRoulette challenges: You come for the non-existent landing strip; you
stay for half an hour to clean up the messy TIGER roads. However, given
that there are so many other MapRoulette tasks that will lead you to remote
areas and _can't_ be automated, I'm fully in support of Mateusz's automatic
edit.

 Harald (hobbesvsboyle)
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