<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 5:35 AM, Andrew Guertin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew.guertin@uvm.edu" target="_blank">andrew.guertin@uvm.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":94" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">"Gardening" carries the risk that, when done incorrectly, it's not just the map that's impacted negatively, but the community as well. When people see their work improved upon that's great, but when their work is discarded or even worse edited to something that's wrong, that hurts.<br>
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Surveying doesn't carry that risk at all.<br></div></blockquote></div><br>Surveying has the same risk, when a stubborn mapper keeps adding duplicate information or mapping according to his rules. It is demotivating for the gardeners that try to teach him how to properly map and correct his data. We have a case in Belgium were a certain mapper keeps mapping speedcams so they appear in 1 app. He neglects all previously mapped enforcement relations. One of our well-respected mappers is getting demotivated by this. So please do not give all surveyors a higher status than gardeners. </div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">You need gardeners, especially in countries with a relative small group of active mappers, because you do not have enough people to go out and verify each and every typo on the street. So please let the gardeners take care of the "restuarants", the renaming of all banks in a country when they once again change their name, etc. without to much hurdles.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">regards</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">m</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">p.s. I'm not a gardener, most of my edits are done after surveys or from aerial images (lanes + turn:lanes at this moment)</div>
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