[OSM-talk] Prolification of the amenity tag

[Simone Cortesi]

On 11/29/06, bvh <bvh-osm at irule.be> wrote:

> My main concern against allowing an unlimited amount of geo information is
> * more features means more outdated information (especially
> with quickly changing stuff like wifi zones, shops, etc), harming
> the credibility of other information also in the database
> (Note missing information is better than wrong information)

I do agree with you. And to support our common opinion I would like to
point you all to this article, The Persistence of (Bad) Online Data
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/10/the_persistence_of_bad_data.html

This deals with a "simple" mistake in assigning an ISBN to a book that
eventually never got published by oreilly, but did by a different
publisher.

-- 
Simone Cortesi

All that is gold does not glitter;
not all those that wander are lost.
           J.R.R. Tolkien