[OSM-talk] Worst of OSM

[Hermann Peifer]

On 15/05/2012 15:37, Pieren wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Kate Chapman<kate at maploser.com>  wrote:
>
>> Personally I think it is discouraging. I think positive encouragement
>> is much better than this negative method.
>
> The problem is that this page is mixing real mistakes (mainly bad
> imports) and areas where the geodata do not comply with...

The page also includes a good part of ignorance. The Worst of "Worst of 
OSM" is an example from Brasilia where the question is: "Do they have 
road names at all in Brazil?"

The simple answer is: Not necessarily in Brasilia, where block names are 
quite popular. This went over various lists recently, e.g. [1]. If one 
doesn't know a minimum about a given area, it could be wise to keep 
one's mouth shut rather than pointing to "mistakes".

Hermann

[1] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2012-April/009878.html