<div dir="auto">I've been paid in the past to do mapping for someone, but I was already an active experienced osm mapper beforehand.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">How to be successful:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"> Listen to osm experts/community and not fight against them</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Use existing tags on the wiki, don't invent your own</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Verify data accuracy as much as you can, not dump data</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">When merging data, verify if data is older than yours, locals usually have a better sense of what buildings/pois have been demolished/exist</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri., Sep. 11, 2020, 3:56 p.m. Michał Brzozowski, <<a href="mailto:www.haxor@gmail.com">www.haxor@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Hi all,<div dir="auto">Do we have any examples of companies that do paid mapping (preferably at scale) and do it right?</div><div dir="auto">Maybe leading by example will help other mapping teams get along better with local OSM communities?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Michał</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div>
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