[OSM-talk] Using Notes in France

[Andreas Goss]

> create a note for missing addresses, shops, pharmacies, etc. Such
> notes do not help contributors because it is so obvious and does not
> bring any information or error report helping the others.

Missing POIs are not obvious at all. I can't look at openstreetmap.org 
and see "Oh there is a shop or pharmacy missing here".

In Germany those notes are very common and mappers usually gladly 
impelent them. Usually it is also easy to confirm them with a qick 
google search and some people even post a URL. (The last carto update 
also made those mappers really happy, because we get a lot of notes for 
stuff that is in the DB, but not shown on the map)

For addresses it depends. A lot of addresses missing in the area? I 
agree no point in creating notes. A single address missing when 
everything around is covered? Certaily valid to point that out.

> It just a bit arrongant or coming from people thinking that contributions have
> to be prioritized like street names before buildings, etc.

Considering I mainly use street names for navigation and to find stuff 
on the map I don't see how it is arrogant. Dozen of houses missing in an 
area usually does not make a big difference, a few street names missing 
on the other hand are much more likely to result in a bad user experiance.
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