[OSM-talk] Awards

[Brendan Barrett]

While there may be easter eggs in OSM added by some users... I was of the 
opinion that we do not do this in OSM. I've advised anyone i've ever spoken 
to on the topic not to put easter eggs into OSM. I was under the impression 
that the data itself was easy enough to compare to a copy. The use of easter 
eggs is also questionable. We seem to be going through great lengths to 
eradicate problems caused by easter eggs (I think there was a forum post 
relating to roads in Australian commercial maps), why put them into our 
database when their value is questionable?

Either way, I don't think that easter eggs justify willfully adding fake 
data to the map. I couldn't be bothered if someone wanted to take a copy of 
the OSM data, and provide their own modifications in a rendered version, but 
to put this data into the main OSM database should be discouraged wherever 
possible. Also, is there not a risk of every newbie wanting their own road? 
Where do we draw the line?

Regards,
Brendan Barrett

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From: "Elizabeth Dodd" <edodd at billiau.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 1:18 PM
To: <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Awards

> On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Till Harbaum / Lists wrote:
>> But that all doesn't give us a reason to add artificial, misleading and
>> useless information to the osm maps.
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Copyright_Easter_Eggs
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