[OSM-talk] What to call OSM data?

[Tom Davie]

On 26 Nov 2012, at 09:58, Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 4:34 AM, Kate Chapman <kate at maploser.com> wrote:
> 
>> So for example crowdsourced infromation, volunteered geographic
>> information, non-authoritative data, or something else?
> 
> Crowdsourced non-authoritative geographic data ?

I'm personally not sure I agree with the non-authoritative part.  Half the point of OpenStreetMap is that it's made by authorities on the subject of their local area.  Of course, I guess that doesn't hold for all editors.

Bob