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by jraph 815 days ago
I wanted to know how it's handled on OpenStreetMap, and here's how [1], on a first of April anyway.

If someone knows more on this, don't hesitate to share :-)

[1] https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2017/03/31/osm-plate-tectonic...

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I was wondering if they were going to apply the correction to all objects, but as they hinted at in the post, only objects old enough to cause a half meter shift will probably be corrected.

Edit: Oh, April Fools. Seemed doable.

The post is an April Fools, to be clear.

edit: right? It seemed credible, I only noticed the date at the end. The part where they would hide the edit from history was incredibly shady though, and that's what made me look even closer. I would hope they would never do this, if they even could. Without this part, the post would not have looked like an April Fools, just an actually good idea.

I love how that post supposedly ended up being posted on the wrong day. XD