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

[Chris Hill]

On 26/01/15 19:19, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 11:10 AM, JB <jbosm at mailoo.org 
> <mailto: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".

That can be made without adding poor quality data to OSM.

> 1a) Even an approximate position is better than not knowing at all.

Hmmm, not sure about that.

>
> 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.

I'd say lots of people care about quality. Saying that some existing 
things that are poor quality somehow justifies adding more poor quality 
is a steep slope down to junk.

I would say that if you know the data are poor quality, don't add them. 
Find a way to improve them or offer them in a set of hints for people to 
find the real place on the ground.

> 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.

Again, that doesn't justify adding data you know are poor quality. 
Please don't do that.


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Cheers, Chris
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