Comment by rhn_mk1
5 years ago
I think it's rather about the amounts of data we're talking about. It's not practical to manually select OSM data for the world. An open source project of this size could maybe do it for a bigger city. But this is obviously not limited to a city.
So what does "curate" mean in that sentence?
I don’t rightly know what it means. Probably what you’d guess it does: a big ol’ pile of good-enough heuristic filters and transformations tuned on a handful of key locations, with a pinch of manual modification.
I was only surprised at the claim that the sentence doesn’t make sense in English, I never intended to imply that the sense wasn’t bullshit. (After the sellout stunt the MAPS.ME creators pulled I generally don’t view their participation as an advantage.)
OSM includes practically any mappable data collected for free, including even Wikipedia entries with a physical location. I assume curating means deciding the relevance of stuff like this and making into a map thats similar to google maps. Curate has also lost a lot of its meaning after ~5 years of ad spam. "This holiday, Lexus presents a curated grifting experience" (leaving in the autocorrect typo, sorry)