[OSM-talk] On the ground rule on the wiki

[Liz]

On Mon, 31 May 2010, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Anthony wrote:
> > I guess the suggestion to "map what's on the ground" is good advice as 
> > long as it's not exclusionary.  But my beef is with people who tell us 
> > to "map what's on the ground" to the exclusion of everything that isn't 
> > on the ground.
> 
> Problem is that whatever is not on the ground is not verifiable; I'd 
> have to take the mapper's word for it. And this opens the door to people 
> inventing stuff.

Specific problem
Bicentennial National Trail 
http://www.nationaltrail.com.au/
can be followed from maps but not signed much on the ground
(one of the Au mappers has been marking this)