[OSM-talk] Troll talk (was Google fumbles again in latin america)

[Dan Putler]

This list already already seen an extensive thread on the behavior of 
the individual in question. Isn't there a better use of our bandwidth 
(in terms of both bits and time) than re-hashing it?

On 11/05/2010 09:54 AM, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Apollinaris Schoell<aschoell at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> On 5 Nov 2010, at 8:09 , Serge Wroclawski wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> 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
>>>>          
>>> Epic trolls don't count.
>>>
>>>        
>> 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.
>>>        
>> 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
>
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