[OSM-talk] Google fumbles again in latin america

[Serge Wroclawski]

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Apollinaris Schoell <aschoell at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 5 Nov 2010, at 8:09 , Serge Wroclawski wrote:
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>> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Toby Murray <toby.murray at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Serge Wroclawski <emacsen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> AFAIK no one has ever advocated removing the TIGER tags other than
>>>> tiger_reviewed = no.
>>>
>>> Actually...
>>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2010-July/003761.html
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>> Epic trolls don't count.
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> he is not a troll and has never been.
> who are you to call someone a troll because you don't agree?

I'm someone who reads the lists and see that Anthony says things which
are patently untrue, or uses a tone of fact when it's just
speculation, or just takes up a contrary position when there's no
issue.

>> And I'd consider that vandalism.
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> I consider it improving osm by a human mapper according the spirit of the project instead a container full of imports with not much value. If a human surveys on ground or based on personal knowledge and image tracing it has 100 times more value than any imported data

We're not talking about human surveyed data- that is already addressed
by tiger_reviewed- we're talking about disassociating the original
feature from an import from its current incarnation. This doesn't
improve anything, it just makes it harder to associate the data from
the source.

Also, in the case of image tracing, one is recommended to mention a
source= tag. Not everyone does that all the time (I don't do it often,
when I should), but the idea there is the same- to illustrate the data
lineage.

- Serge