<div dir="ltr">Maybe someone could remind folks about the ...wasn't there a...did I hear about a "test server"? Something like a sandbox?<div><br></div><div>A</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all">
<div>--<br>Alex</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:14 AM, Frederik Ramm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:frederik@remote.org" target="_blank">frederik@remote.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi,<br>
<div class=""><br>
On 14.05.2014 11:09, Jóhannes Birgir Jensson wrote:<br>
> The focus needs to be on the problem at hand,<br>
<br>
</div>"The problem at hand" is currently at a scale that can still be handled<br>
on a case-by-case basis; the reason DWG is thinking about a general<br>
guideline is not that we're trigger happy bureaucrats but that we'd like<br>
everyone to know the rules of play rather than making them up as we go<br>
along, and that we assume that the number of such cases might be on the<br>
rise.<br>
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> which I gather is<br>
> companies hiring people to map things using their own methodology<br>
> incompatible with current OSM tagging guidelines.<br>
<br>
</div>No, that is one potential issue but by far not the only aspect.<br>
<br>
Consider a real-life situation like this:<br>
<br>
* User complains "fictional data is added all over my city!"<br>
* Investigation finds 10 accounts having added fictional data;<br>
* further investigation finds that 10 other accounts have signed up at<br>
the same time from the same network, but have added things that do not<br>
immediately look bad (things that might or might not be factual)<br>
* reaching out to those who edited the most brings zero reply (possibly<br>
because their native language is not English nor anything spoken by<br>
anyone in DWG)<br>
<br>
Even reconstructing the whole situation takes quite a bit of time; and<br>
then we have to decide which bits to revert and which to keep. Is this a<br>
course that was misunderstood, or just organized doodling, or what? How<br>
can we reach the teacher (if any)?<br>
<br>
In this specific instance we decided to revert everything contributed by<br>
the whole group - surely not the optimum outcome for an OSM training course!<br>
<br>
Bye<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Frederik<br>
</font></span><div class="im HOEnZb"><br>
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