[OSM-talk] Mapping well-known area: ok to guess?

Alex S. maps at swavely.com
Sun Oct 21 11:19:04 BST 2007


Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Do you think that (a) this is perfectly ok, (b) this should not be done 
> as it pretends to have an accuracy which isn't there, or (c) can be done 
> but should be tagged somehow? If (c), what would you use? "source=gut"? 
> "note=guessed"?

On the source=* page, it basically says 'ok, but tag it as such'.  The 
most appropriate tag (from the page) would probably be source=extrapolation.






More information about the talk mailing list