[OSM-talk] Not sure what to think

[Andy Townsend]

On 07/01/2016 11:00, Nicolás Alvarez wrote:
>
> El 7 ene 2016, a las 07:47, Hans De Kryger <hans.dekryger13 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:hans.dekryger13 at gmail.com>> escribió:
>
>> So i just came across an edit of a user near me that listed the 
>> source of his edit as (Google Maps Street View) (1)
>
> This is obviously wrong. Google Street View is not an allowed data source.
>

Indeed - although no so long ago a new user in the UK used 
"source=Google Street View" simply because they misunderstood the source 
field.

The street was half a mile up the road from them and they changed the 
name based on local knowledge.  They then thought they had to 
"demonstrate" to other mappers that what they knew was correct (a bit 
like wikipedia's references) and so added a Google Street View link.  I 
explained that "source=local_knowledge" is perfectly OK, and all was well.

Obviously what needed to happen here was for someone to contact the 
mapper, which Hans has already done, so thanks for that.

Cheers,

Andy (SomeoneElse)

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