User:Onel5969/rfc draft

One of the pillars of WP is WP:VERIFY. On the Roads project, editors are encouraged to produce text for route descriptions based on those maps. However, nowhere on those maps is there text of any sort, so editors are using the map and creating their own text, based on the map. The requisite reason they are using to do this is WP:MAPCITE, however, that is an essay. However, that states, "When describing the route of a waterway, mountain range, road, railroad, etc., a single map should not be used the sole source used to provide the description." In addition, WP:OR clearly states, "Do not analyze, evaluate, interpret, or synthesize material found in a primary source yourself; instead, refer to reliable secondary sources that do so." So, the question becomes, should we amend the WP:OR policy to allow editors to interpret the maps in order to create text, or should we strengthen the verbiage to explicitly prohibit it. As I see it those are the choices: