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

[Anthony]

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Gustav Foseid <gustavf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> No borders? No national parks? No nature reserves? No voltage on power
>>>> lines? No named farms (unless the owner puts up a sign)? No names for peaks?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Except for borders, all of those things are verifiable on the ground. I
>>> think that is Frederik's point.
>>>
>>
>> How do you, on the ground, verify the name of a farm?
>
>
> You ask the owner.
>

What's the point of the phrase "on the ground"?  If asking the owner counts
as being "verifiable on the ground", anything verifiable is verifiable on
the ground (just "ask X", where X is the name of someone who can verify it.
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