[OSM-talk] Notability (was openstreetmap)

[Nic Roets]

> Specialist data can be tagged with a prefix, e.g.
> "category:key=value". Then, editors, renderers and output plugins
> could filter out unwanted data using an API call (like the filters in
> osmxapi) so that they don't waste time downloading it. I see nothing
> wrong with putting specialized data in the main database as long as
> there is an easy way to filter it out if the user doesn't want it.

The notability issue exists both on the data level and the meta data level :
Data : It can be frustrating to view a map where someone imported a
lot of placenames from an inaccurate or outdated source, trying to
find out which are still being used.
Meta-Data : A lot of our data was imported with tags indicating
something about the collection process rather than that physical
location. The latter is clearly more valuable than the former, but
every import followed (or ignored) a different convention.