[OSM-talk] New proposal: Bad data

[Jukka Rahkonen]

 <wynndale <at> lavabit.com> writes:

> 
> The new Bad data proposal is a scheme to mark traced aerial photography or
> maps as out of date or otherwise unreliable so that they can be obscured
> in editors and users don’t copy details into the OSM database reducing its
> accuracy.
> 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bad_data
> 

Hi,

Instead of calling it Bad data I would say it inaccurate or outdated data. Map
data traced from Yahoo imagery is better than no data at all. But some common
schema for tagging the quality of mapped features would be useful. Or is there
already some, in addition to using FIXME and source tags?