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In my area, AL are adding legitimate data which helps improve the
quality of the OSM database. I believe they make the same amount of
errors as any other contributors, including experienced ones.<br>
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Unsure why he thinks OSMF should be keeping an eye on contributors
purely because they're paid.<br>
I doubt Paul, when he started his first *paid* job was an expert at
it, & never made a mistake.<br>
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It sounds like Paul's got his knickers in a twist over something
other than poor quality data.<br>
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DaveFÂ <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 20/03/2020 23:07, Paul Johnson
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">So, you all know at this point that I've been heavily invested in editing
OSM and contributing to my maximum activity, less as a need to help a
charity and more of an obligation to the public to do the most good with
the short time I have on this planet. However, I've had a few events come
up that are more or less killing my ability to keep up.
I'm taking a step back from being the primary editor in the Oklahoma region
until this passes.
3) Amazon Logistics and a revolving door team of one-edit-and-done spam
accounts keeps throwing paid contributions into Oklahoma that are of poorly
aligned, largely fictional and low quality. I'm stuck cleaning up in a
neglected part of North America some particularly low quality edits with
limited resources and little ability to find more. I hope other
contributors can help keep abreast and I hope OSM Foundation can help keep
paid contributors to account. I don't think it's unreasonable to think
that paid mapper should be contributing *far* higher quality data than your
average volunteer first time mapper, and I think OSM needs to have a
serious conversation about minimum qualifications for paid mapping that I
simply don't have the time or energy for at this point. Dealing with this
(and staying abreast extensive OkTrans highway modernization efforts
lately) have been a major part of my editing (and while OkTrans is
unavoidable, Amazon is inexcusable).
2) My truck was stolen last night
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://social.tulsa.ok.us/@BalooUriza/103855930214022255"><https://social.tulsa.ok.us/@BalooUriza/103855930214022255></a>, along with the
dashcams I use for Mapillary, essentially making long range surveying
impossible and imperiling my survival since, if for nothing else, I need to
hit Costco for restocking my pantry and storeroom. As such, I had to call
off work and spent most of the day today dealing with the police today.
1) I work in the IT department of a major regional hospital on the front
lines of the COVID-19 response in the US. My vacation at the end of next
month, and my weekends for the next two months, have been cancelled, and
I'm expected to work 8+ hours a day, 7 days a week to help keep things up
and running so the medical staff don't have to think about the computers.
I really hope OSMF and the DWG takes a good, hard and critical look at
dealing with the low quality edits from Amazon and spammers while I deal
with acquiring another (or, best case, my stolen) pickup and dealing with
my professional life.
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