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<div>Also, his was poorly organized Organised Editing and this person was forced<br></div><div>to map in OSM by badly designed university assigment.<br></div><div><br></div><div>If anything that is proof that forcing people to map in OSM is even less useful<br></div><div>than expected.<br></div><div><br></div><div>( according to<br></div><div><a href="https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2020/08/we-tracked-down-the-person-responsible-for-the-flight-simulator-melbourne-monolith/">https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2020/08/we-tracked-down-the-person-responsible-for-the-flight-simulator-melbourne-monolith/</a> )<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Aug 22, 2020, 10:51 by me-osm-tagging@keepawayfromfire.co.uk:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>On Sat, 2020-08-22 at 09:32 +0200, pangoSE wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div>Building upon it can lead to strange things. E.g. <br></div><div>https://www.nyteknik.se/popularteknik/mystisk-jatteskrapa-dok-upp-i-flygsimulator-6999771<br></div><div> (building:levels=212 was entered erroneously and committed to the<br></div><div>database without any kind of QA follow-up. If someone knows the<br></div><div>osmid I would like to know how long this error was present in OSM)<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/712475718/history<br></div><div><br></div><div>1 - It was introduced by a novice mapper, presumably as a typeo.<br></div><div><br></div><div>2 - Nikolas von Randow fixed it about 9 months later, presumably with<br></div><div>some kind of QA tool (maybe just a overpass query).<br></div><div><br></div><div>3 - Another local novice mapper also edited it, and fixed another issue<br></div><div>at the same time. Presumably noticed via a rendered map.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Before criticising the mapper, it should be noted that it was a novice<br></div><div>mapper and the existing building data in the area isn't of great<br></div><div>quality anyway. This wasn't a regression. And accidents happen anyway,<br></div><div>I've done a similar thing via StreetComplete where I entered the house<br></div><div>number in the building levels quest.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The big companies doing QA on OSM data (Mapbox and Facebook) have a<br></div><div>high focus on vandalism. They are trying to stop "Jewtropolis" from<br></div><div>ever happening again.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>Tagging mailing list<br></div><div>Tagging@openstreetmap.org<br></div><div>https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div> </body>
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