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The disadvantages of copying other people's maps
Ipinaskil ni davespod noong 22 Nobyembre 2012 na nasa EnglishI 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
Puna mula sa _sev noong 22 Nobyembre 2012 sa ganap na 16:09
That’s fascinating indeed. Thanks for the interesting read.
Puna mula sa chillly noong 22 Nobyembre 2012 sa ganap na 17:48
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.
Puna mula sa Todeskuh noong 22 Nobyembre 2012 sa ganap na 20:37
Also mentioned here (german):
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/sandy-island-im-pazifik-erweist-sich-als-phantominsel-a-868715.html
Puna mula sa z-dude noong 22 Nobyembre 2012 sa ganap na 21:39
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?
Puna mula sa chillly noong 22 Nobyembre 2012 sa ganap na 22:37
@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