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I have come across many many occurrences of shake holes* being marked as "old mining?" the problem I see with this is threefold (detailed below), however I wanted to check I wasn't jumping the gun, as I don't want to offend anyone.
What I want to check is: How should I best correct this issue? Should I correct to points or areas? Should *(A natural depression in a land surface communicating with a subterranean passage, generally occurring in limestone regions and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof. Defenition from: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Shake+hole) For example: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/93798676
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FWIW When I've been walking in that area I've come across quite a few named "old mining ?" areas and "historic=mineshaft" nodes that simply didn't match anything on the ground, so I just deleted them. I believe I contacted the mapper concerned (the same one as you, who as I understand it is actually historically pretty familiar with the area, and may even also have a geology degree!) at the time. Assuming you're doing this from ground survey I'd just do the same. Even if not, then you can probably still compare https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/93798676 (alleged source, Bing) with the current Bing imagery and still delete it. I'd probably also mention via a changeset discussion comment on the original changeset that you've deleted it because you see no evidence of it. Thanks for the answer. The reason I asked the question is I assumed that the original editor would have a pretty good idea what they were talking about to have put in so much effort. Also, to confirm, I am doing this from ground survey and using GPS offset corrected Bing imagery as a background. (FWIW I only mentioned the geology degree as an indication I wasn't doing this on a whim!) Thanks Again!
(22 Sep '16, 21:42)
BarnsleyOli
Just to check: What are your thoughts on removing the "name" tags from these areas? Would this be too pedantic?
(22 Sep '16, 21:44)
BarnsleyOli
I'm pretty sure that way doesn't really have a name of "old mining ?". If it was an old mining area, then that might be a description of what it was, but not its name.
(22 Sep '16, 21:53)
SomeoneElse ♦
Agree with all of the above. Also I know for sure that the original editor does have a Geology degree. I think it's worth using a changeset discussion to raise the issue with him directly. Also I think natural=sinkhole is the most widely used tag.
(23 Sep '16, 10:57)
SK53 ♦
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