[OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: [Imports] amenity=bicycle_repair_station :::: only 18 so far

[Bryce Nesbitt]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 11:10 AM, JB <jbosm at mailoo.org> wrote:

>
> I have nothing against bicycle repair stations. Really. But, just in
> France, how many databases do we have that are as worth as this one ?
> Post offices, monuments, schools… Do we want to create some hundreds,
> thousands of notes for these?


1)  There's a strong use case for a mobile app to "find the nearest bicycle
repair station".
1a) Even an approximate position is better than not knowing at all.

2) Nobody seems to mind if a school POI is off by 30 meters.  But the
people do seem to care for bicycle repair stations.
3) Everything in OSM is subject to verification and change over time.
There are hundreds if not thousands of USA post offices in OSM that no
longer exist: data quality never absolute.
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