[OSM-talk] Speeding

[Andy Allan]

On 11/30/06, Robert (Jamie) Munro <rjmunro at arjam.net> wrote:

> Timestamps should not be required by the system, and if the system is
> given them, it should not store them. It is too much of an invasion of
> privacy. It may be useful to store timestamps to within a month to
> detect if roads have been rebuilt since the trace was made, but more
> accurate than that is certainly not necessary.


I'd like it if the api could give some indication as to the age of the
timestamps, so that editors could colour shade them -  white for new, grey
for old. As the decades go by, I would expect the accuracy of fresh tracks
to be higher than those done years ago.
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