[Osmf-talk] Paid Mapping / WikiPR like issues in OSM?
Oleksiy Muzalyev
oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch
Wed Nov 27 21:34:46 UTC 2013
It depends on a region too.
In commercial areas of, say, Moscow or Hamburg there could be disputes
or, perhaps, even bad edits.
But in a town of Reni
http://osm.org/go/0iBGuTdM-
or
Kiliya
http://osm.org/go/0iDksh1c-
there is another problem, - not a single street is named, not a single
business is mapped. Both towns have population of about 20 thousand.
I drew streets and some large buildings over a satellite image and it
stays this way.
I would say it would be better if the towns were mapped exhaustively and
there were some bad edits to settle.
By the way, in Wikipedia there is another problem. Not only articles
could be added for money by PR people, but good articles can be deleted
too for money paid by a competition.
As always in a moneyless society appears a black market. Well learned
lesson. Perhaps, it makes sense to try to integrate businesses into
mapping in a regulated organized way without destroying the community.
brgds,
O.
On 27.11.2013 21:46, Dan Stowell wrote:
So there are many tweaks that people could
> make for paid or selfish reasons, which are difficult to detect, and
> which can't completely be disproved from aerials etc - such as
> tweaking road lengths/straightnesses to ensure traffic tends to be
> routed past their business (or not past their house!).
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