[HOT] [OSM-talk] Tool update from HOT: MapCampaigner

Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org
Mon Oct 1 05:57:28 UTC 2018


Hi,

On 01.10.2018 03:28, Nate Smith wrote:
> Last week we
> released a new version of a data quality monitoring tool

I would like to recommend that you don't use the term "quality
monitoring tool" for this since you're measuring quantity not quality.
At best, I'd call it a tool that monitors "richness" or "completeness".

Simply counting how many features there are and how many of a
pre-defined list of tags each one has shouldn't be called "quality
monitoring", because there will be situations where the OpenStreetMap
community requests of project managers (who your web site claims to be
targeted at) that they implement some form of quality assurance; calling
your statistics tool a "quality monitoring" tool runs the risk of making
these people believe that quality requirements can be fulfilled by
ensuring that enough tags are set, which is definitely not what the
wider community would regard as a suitable quality assurance for a
humanitarian data entry project.

Bye
Frederik

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