[OSM-talk] THIS is the kind of enthusiasm some would reject

[Lauri Kytömaa]

Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> the world is not black and white

This (or some other message) reminded of one other very accepted case
where the verifiability could be contested, but isn't. People do map
underground pipelines (water, drain, heat etc.), either interpolating
between manholes or markers, or by having seen an open
construction/repait pit. A pit (usually) leaves a strip of patched
pavement which the next mapper can use to "verify" the pipeline
alignment, but after the whole road is then repaved again removing any
"naked eye evidence" of the turns the pipeline takes, nobody is
suggesting that the mapped curves and turns in the pipeline should be
removed. We trust the mapper and their sources - and just hope they
described them in the changeset tags.

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alv