[OSM-talk] What to call OSM data?

[Barnett, Phillip]

That's one meaning of authoritative. 
The other meaning is 1. Having or arising from authority; official: an authoritative decree; authoritative sources.
Which in this context would be someone like local government, as they are the ones who normally allocate street names, etc
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From: Tom Davie [tom.davie at gmail.com]
Sent: 26 November 2012 10:25
To: Pieren
Cc: osm
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] What to call OSM data?

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
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