[Tagging] Rarely verified and third-party data staleness in OpenStreetMap

European Water Project europeanwaterproject at gmail.com
Mon Apr 6 16:37:10 UTC 2020


Hi Frederik,

I agree 100%.

The proposal thesis is that "Key level last updated date meta data" within
OSM, might be a useful ingredient for facilitating better data quality
maintenance on data which tends to go stale.

Best regards,

Stuart



On Mon, 6 Apr 2020 at 18:24, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 06.04.20 17:25, Paul Allen wrote:
> > Expecting mappers to wander around checking refill points
> > is expecting far too much.  Expecting people looking for refill points
> > to tap a "this place still does refills" is expecting far too much.
>
> Only way I would see this working is a "gamification" thing where - a
> bit like the "Kort game" of days past
> (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Kort_Game) and a bit like
> "StreetComplete" - people who happen to be in a specific location and
> who have signed up to the game/system are nudged to go check something -
> "hey since you're standing in front of restaurant X, please check if it
> still has the property Y". But that would require people to sign up, and
> of course a server-side application to track contributions, leaderboards
> and so on. Whether or not the back-end storage is then OpenStreetMap or
> a separate database is actually a smaller question.
>
> Simply establishing a tag and hoping that you have to develop and run
> neither a backend (because OSM will do it) nor a frontend (because
> people can use Vespucci) is extremely optimistic.
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
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