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The disadvantages of copying other people's maps
ایہہ 22؍November 2012ء English وچ «davespod» لیکھ چھپیا گیا سی۔I am pleased to report that the island “proven by scientists not to exist” (by attempting to visit it) does not appear in OSM:
http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/?mt0=mapnik&mt1=googlemap&lon=159.93316&lat=-19.217&zoom=11
Discussion
ایہہ 22؍November 2012ء 16:09 تے «_sev» ٹپݨی کیتی گئی سی۔
That’s fascinating indeed. Thanks for the interesting read.
ایہہ 22؍November 2012ء 17:48 تے «chillly» ٹپݨی کیتی گئی سی۔
OSM twitter feed says our contributors actually go out and survey (which many do).
At the same time OSM organises Operation Cowboy - an armchair mapping festival.
I’ll prefer surveys every time.
ایہہ 22؍November 2012ء 20:37 تے «Todeskuh» ٹپݨی کیتی گئی سی۔
Also mentioned here (german):
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/sandy-island-im-pazifik-erweist-sich-als-phantominsel-a-868715.html
ایہہ 22؍November 2012ء 21:39 تے «z-dude» ٹپݨی کیتی گئی سی۔
regarding another Sandy Island which had wikipedia editors confused, why doesn’t the Lacepede’s Sandy Island render on OSM? osm.org/browse/way/187645473 is it because it’s from Oct 25?
ایہہ 22؍November 2012ء 22:37 تے «chillly» ٹپݨی کیتی گئی سی۔
@alexz In OSM coastline is a special case. It only gets updated occasionally and until then the island won’t render. It could take weeks before the coastline job runs next. More info here