[OSM-talk] Prolification of the amenity tag

Paul Youlten paul.yellowikis at gmail.com
Wed Nov 29 11:58:03 GMT 2006


Simone,

Yes, don't you think the ISBN database managers should open up their data so
it can be edited by users?

;-)

PY




On 11/29/06, Simone Cortesi <simone at cortesi.com> wrote:
>
> 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 * more features means more outdated information (especially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
>
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