<div dir="ltr">Dear friends,<div><br></div><div>I would like to commend <a href="http://maps.me" target="_blank">maps.me</a> for creating an easy-to-use mobile app that makes OpenStreetMap available to many more people. For example, there are many amazing uses of OpenStreetMap via <a href="http://maps.me">maps.me</a> in disconnected areas of our planet, that make people's lives better and often save lives. As a community, should we not be interested in more users and more diversity <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Diversity">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Diversity</a>?</div><div><br></div><div>Clearly quality can be an issue, but it's not just an issue on <a href="http://maps.me">maps.me</a>, it's an issue with any tool and any community. Of course, the more people use a tool, the more of an issue it becomes.</div><div><br></div><div>I have two concrete suggestions: </div><div><br></div><div>(1) Given that you have looked into the issues around <a href="http://maps.me">maps.me</a>, could you formulate a suggestion how some of the issues could be improved, in particular what sort of UI improvements in <a href="http://maps.me">maps.me</a> might stop people entering wrong/redundant data?</div><div><br></div><div>(2) Would it be worth discussing strategies for quality assurance somewhere? There doesn't seem to be a mailing list dedicated to this - maybe there should be one?</div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks for your contributions,</div><div>Bjoern<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 June 2017 at 09:39, Tomas Straupis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tomasstraupis@gmail.com" target="_blank">tomasstraupis@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span>2017-06-11 6:29 GMT+03:00 Michał Brzozowski wrote:<br>
> Much has been said about <a href="http://MAPS.ME" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">MAPS.ME</a> note and edit functionality on this<br>
> list and elsewhere. I tried to get a real picture of how good/bad they<br>
> are. I went to <a href="http://mmwatch.osmz.ru" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">mmwatch.osmz.ru</a> and assessed 73 edits/notes made<br>
> between June 6th and 10th in Poland. Then I made a spreadsheet<br>
> (percentages at the bottom):<br>
</span>> <...><br>
> No issues: 26% (only!)<br>
> <...><br>
<span>> Given this, I'm actually interested in how things look in places<br>
> without any established local community. After all, <a href="http://MAPS.ME" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">MAPS.ME</a> is popular<br>
> all around the world.<br>
<br>
</span> If there is no local community - nobody will be able to answer...<br>
<br>
But in general the only way is to check all c$@#.me edits and have<br>
reverting tools on hand. After some time you would even notice that<br>
there is no point in wasting even more time by writing to those<br>
"editors" and will revert without asking. Also helps to not<br>
promote/mention the name of the app and try to discourage people from<br>
using it by explaining the problems or at least giving bad rating in<br>
google play.<br>
<br>
And this is likely not going to change, because creators have an<br>
illusion that it is "very good" to have thousands of people crapping<br>
map data and wasting time of power-mappers if out of that one thousand<br>
one single person actually becomes a mapper mapping with proper tools<br>
(at least iD/Potlatch).<br>
<br>
It seems that quantity gets a huge priority against quality...<br>
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--<br>
Tomas<br>
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