[Osmf-talk] Alternative Strategic Plan

[Christopher Beddow]

In my view, apps like Organic Maps are one of the biggest opportunities. It
should be considered to help fund efforts like this to be an end user
oriented app, where the map is consumed, not just editing tools. Imagine
achieving something like 5, 10, 20 million daily active users of Organic
Maps. People who use the product can naturally give the feedback the
builders need.

Google Maps is good at this: crowdsourcing frequent validation of data
because users interact with it, whether reviewing it, getting small prompts
to add attributes, or having the chance to report wrong, missing, or
outdated data, anonymously, for experienced mappers to fix (a note).

Waze is also very good at this: crowdsourcing while using the data for
routing, both actively (reporting dynamic things like construction) and
passively (if users all keep avoiding a suggested route, maybe it changed).
Waze also has a map editing tool.

I am not sure of the impact of user reports on Mapbox and other tools, but
enabling huge numbers of anonymous end users to report data or validate
it's existence without anonymously making complex edits, can be a major
boost.


On Sun, May 14, 2023, 05:32 Mateusz Konieczny via osmf-talk <
osmf-talk at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

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> May 13, 2023, 22:24 by osmf-talk at openstreetmap.org:
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> Truth to be told, generic building=yes already add almost no information
> at all to the map relevant for data users
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> building=yes geometries are highly useful for orientation. And note that
> among OSM
> data consumers vast majority displays all building=* values in the same
> way,
> and on maps in general it is quite typical solution.
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> so at least render then differently (or not render at all) would
> disencourage
> low quality armchair mapping
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> mapping accurate building=yes is highly helpful (low quality armchair
> mapping has
> dubious or negative utility, but mapping building=yes is not indicator of
> this - rather
> inaccurate guessing of building=* value is a bigger problem)
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