[OSM-talk] Not sure what to think

[Robert Norris]

>
> On Fri, 2016-01-08 at 17:33 +0100, Simon Poole wrote:
>> Ahemm that was the whole point: is it about completing  information
>> (the
>> website URL) in OSM by systematically (as in going through "all
>> schools"
>> in the UK) querying google and not about retrieving information from
>> the
>> website returned in the query.
>>
>> I can't see any fundamental difference between the above and say
>> getting a phone book and extracting all the phone numbers of schools
>> from it
>
> There's at least one fundamental difference; the user of google search
> results has to do an evaluation of the result set returned and make a
> judgment call to select the one he's actually interested in.
>

Agreed, I think one must "phone that number" (i.e. visit that URL) to confirm it exists and that is it the primary contact of the named item.