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[Paul Allen]

On Tue, 19 May 2020 at 18:54, European Water Project <
europeanwaterproject at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I hope you are partially wrong and that we attract non-OSM contributors as
> well.  But I am not sufficiently confident to bet against you  :)))
>

You seem to be hoping that people who use your app to find these places
will,
if they encounter such a place that isn't in your app, use your app to add
it.  It's
possible.  It would be unreasonable to expect casual users to create
OSM and Wikimedia accounts just to add a new object.

The other possibility is that people will deliberately seek out such objects
to add them to the app.  At least some of them will be of the type who
could be encouraged to create OSM and Wikimedia accounts.  But that's
a barrier to entry, so there won't be many people willing to do that.

Assuming you have enough server space to hold uploaded images
then have your app note the details and store the image, and put the
POI into a queue to be processed by volunteers who are willing to create
an OSM account.  I think a queue on your server for volunteers to
process is better than dropping notes all over the map.  It's
certainly cleaner for mappers.  And it means your volunteers don't have
to inspect every note to see if it's one they should deal with.

You might be able to come up with a copyright release for images
uploaded to your app that would let your volunteers then put them
on Wikimedia under some sort of blanket approval, but I wouldn't
bet on it.  You'd have to ask Wikimedia about that.

-- 
Paul
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