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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jul 25, 2021, 15:15 by andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>On Sat, 24 Jul 2021 at 22:33, Justin Tracey <j3tracey@gmail.com> wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div>If you have other information to add to OSM,<br></div></blockquote><div>[...]<br></div><blockquote><div>because you aren't<br></div><div>currently looking at the thing in the real world, you should not be<br></div><div>using StreetComplete for it. All of the above examples should be added<br></div><div>via some other editor<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You make assertions; they are not facts.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">StreetComplete explicitly ask to use it for survey and survey only.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">"Are you sure you checked this on-site?"<br></div><div dir="auto">"Only information that was found on a survey should be entered."<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">is asked when user position mismatches position of solved quests.<br></div><div dir="auto">It could be made even stronger and completely block surveying<br></div><div dir="auto">out of range but it would annoy honest mappers with poor GPS.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In multiple places it is described as tool for surveying,<br></div><div dir="auto">and never described as too for armchair editing.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Please use it for direct survey - and if someone uses it in other way<br></div><div dir="auto">then all complication are fault of the user.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><blockquote><div>* Mapillary, Wikimedia Commons, and other public streetlevel imagery<br></div><div>sources are not survey sources<br></div></blockquote><div>[...]<br></div><blockquote>Again, they definitely should not be used with StreetComplete.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>And again: baseless assertions.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">If you missed multiple hints and clear requests in app, then as one of<br></div><div dir="auto">contributors to the program, I ask you: use it for survey <br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">(or de facto survey, though making paper notes for StreetComplete <br></div><div dir="auto">is weird and loses nearly all of its usefulness).<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Survey can be normal one, or some unusual way of obtaining<br></div><div dir="auto">accurate and recent info, but please never insert data using SC<br></div><div dir="auto">based on possibly outdated/wrong source (guessing, aerial,<br></div><div dir="auto">Mapillary made weeks earlier...).<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And if you ignored it - and misused StreetComplete despite clear<br></div><div dir="auto">requests, then please do not blame it for not supporting<br></div><div dir="auto">explicitly not supported use case.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">StreetComplete is not made, intended, supporting or supposed to<br></div><div dir="auto">be supporting remote/armchair mapping.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Solving quests based on photos you just made seems unusual but <br></div><div dir="auto">should be fine - but you need to take care to not produce supersized<br></div><div dir="auto">bounding boxes (wait for changesets to autoclose or close them <br></div><div dir="auto">with JOSM/editing API).<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><blockquote><div>* Asking a friend or relative is not a survey (at least, not in the<br></div><div>geography sense<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>And again: there is no source saying that the role of surveying and<br></div><div>keying in SC cannot be a team effort.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">Yeah, this one is quite unusual and would be really ineffective to<br></div><div dir="auto">exchange necessary but in theory it may happen.<br></div> </body>
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