<html><head></head><body>I'm guilty of leaving some abandoned notes! I got the notifications when they were cleaned up recently.<br><br>I mostly left the notes because I was using StreetComplete, and wanted to capture data that StreetComplete couldn't capture. I intended to come back and resolve the notes, but clearly forgot!<br><br>However, I did double check some of the recently closed notes, and at least one had been closed without incorporating the information (postbox collection time) into the map. I took the opportunity to belatedly add this.<br><br>Regards,<br>David Wales<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 7 March 2022 10:31:08 am AEDT, stevea <steveaOSM@softworkers.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre dir="auto" class="k9mail">On Mar 2, 2022, at 1:18 AM, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1@gmail.com> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">Have they simply forgotten that they posted them, so a reminder would og their memory; or as suggested, do they want somebody else to do the actual mapping work for them?<br></blockquote><br>Let's not forget that a Note is often added by a "lesser experienced" mapper (or maybe not even a mapper at all, I think there might be methods for non-Contributors to add a Note, like through certain apps...please correct me if I'm wrong). They add a Note because it is "better than leaving a noticed error," but they can't (or won't) fix it themselves. So, YES, they DO want somebody else to do the actual mapping work for them. There is nothing wrong with this, it is part of why Notes exist, so let's incorporate that knowledge into why somebody posted a Note in the first place: it isn't so we can grumble at their "laziness," it is to "request an assist" by a mapper who comes along later and says "yup, there's a problem here, I know how to fix it, and they whack away the error into mapping data bliss." (Right there, for that issue). And, "another one (Note) bites the dust."<br><br>As we Resolve a Note, it's a full round-trip on what is supposed to happen with them. Even one at a time this is true, but especially when you get national-scope efforts to fix these (thousands at a time), the quality of our map data just goes up, up, up. I smile at the thought of it: such feedback loops are wonderful.<br><br>Congrats on the Weekly Newsletter horn-toot!<hr>Talk-au mailing list<br>Talk-au@openstreetmap.org<br><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au</a><br></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>