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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jun 6, 2022, 07:07 by tomasstraupis@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>Mateusz copy-pasted some other mapping rules as our "decision"<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">(1) I have not copy pasted anything, I edited this pages to remove<br></div><div dir="auto">blatantly misleading claim that for example POIs cannot be mapped<br></div><div dir="auto">without use of GPS device and that aerial imagery cannot be used to map<br></div><div dir="auto">roads/paths<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">(2) following three paragraphs are copy-pasted from<br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2022-June/087558.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2022-June/087558.html</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If Lithuanian community claims that they can ban people from mapping<br></div><div dir="auto">shops if they do not use high-precision GPS then they are wrong<br></div><div dir="auto">and such decision is invalid.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Have you claimed to other mappers that they need such specialist<br></div><div dir="auto">hardware to add a shop? Shops can be added based on existing data,<br></div><div dir="auto">without any GPS hardware (not even smartphone is needed).<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Either this page was outdated or this decision was invalid in the <br></div><div dir="auto">first place and based on being unaware how things can be mapped,<br></div><div dir="auto">based on - for example - already mapped buildings and addresses<br></div><div dir="auto">and roads, and survey data.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="auto"> Look at error point maps and you will see Lithuania being<br></div><div>much cleaner.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">Blindly following QA tools does not mean that map data is better.<br></div><div dir="auto">If you use THAT as indicator that map data in Lithuania is greater<br></div><div dir="auto">than elsewhere then you reveal that you are unaware how to judge<br></div><div dir="auto">map data quality at all.<br></div><div dir="auto">Raw error count of all QA reports are mostly correlated with amount of<br></div><div dir="auto">data being present. Limiting to some specific error classes on<br></div><div dir="auto">specific object types would be needed to have something usable at all<br></div><div dir="auto">for comparing data quality between various regions.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Also, the best way to achieve low amount of validator warning is<br></div><div dir="auto">driving out mappers to ensure that new things are not getting mapped.<br></div><div dir="auto">I suspect that your extreme aggressiveness is directed also at <br></div><div dir="auto">local mappers and you are personally responsible for many people<br></div><div dir="auto">stopping to contribute.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Have you for example commented to anyone that they are not allowed to<br></div><div dir="auto">map shops because they have not bought GPS receiver?<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Also, discontinuous road network classes ARE something reported by QA<br></div><div dir="auto">tools anyway. So your claims are inconsistent anyway.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div> </body>
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