[OSM-talk] Potlatch doing source=GPS in error?

[John Smith]

2009/9/25 Apollinaris Schoell <aschoell at gmail.com>:
> you might be shocked. I rarely add this info. many edits are a mix of gps,
> yahoo tracing, best guess, averaging and interpolation  with other existing
> data, topo maps if free version available, free shape files.
> why would I add all this info? just a lot of work with no benefit. we are

There is a lot of benefit in knowing the source beyond the reason of
lawsuits, firstly if you use a lower grade set of data to map from and
I have a higher quality I would know that mine is more likely to be
accurate without guessing.

> not in a constant lawsuit where we have to document each single node. let's
> spend more time on the map instead of defining the "rules"

Without such rules people would tag everything anyway they saw fit and
it would be completely useless.

> if someone likes to add it so let them do it. osm  means open ....

What does "street map" mean?