[talk-au] "Missing" Roads in Queensland

[Nemanja Bracko (E-Search)]

Hi!

As it has been a month since we got this report at talk-au, we wanted to make a follow up to inform the community what were the results of our internal check.

We had revised our edits and changesets regarding added fences as roads, in the area of QLD. We’ve noticed that three (3) of our editors made total of 17 misleading edits in period of October 14th – October 21st. They had marked fences as a road network. In just 4 of these 17 cases it was absolutely clear that was a fence. We checked 2,653 edits in total. Misleading edits were corrected.
It is 0.6% false ratio in this case. Rest of the edits were without any issues.

We have high standards when it comes to the quality of our edits, and we do not have any quantity quotas, so we are focused to the quality over quantity, but mistakes happens. We are constantly improving our processes and every area has its own specifics, so we are learning these specifics. In the future if you see any edit that is potentially misleading please let us know.

We just wanted to inform the community what were the results of our internal check.

Appreciate the support and looking forward to more collaboration.

Very best regards to you all,
Nemanja


Od: Nemanja Bracko (E-Search)
Poslato: četvrtak, 12. decembar 2019. 08:17
Cc: talk-au at openstreetmap.org
Tema: Re: [talk-au] "Missing" Roads in Queensland

Thanks all for raising this issue! We are going to take a quick pause on our work in Queensland to take stock on this and make sure we’re going about this properly.


  *   Some concrete examples would be great, we’re currently reviewing our team’s work to identify reported issues. We’ve got 3 reports from Cleary @ 10/25, 11/11 and 11/12. All these 3 issues have been fixed and we are paying more attention since then. We haven’t got any new reports, so we will re-check our edits. Once again, please send us more examples if you have.
  *   We’ve updated the wiki on organized editing projects – this is our bad, and we’ll do a better job keeping these up to date. We added this project and will make sure that this is kept up to date.

To address a few other topics brought up in the thread (and hopefully to assuage concerns about our team):


  *   We prioritize quality edits above all else and can guarantee we do not have edit quotas to fill.
  *   We actively QC our edits to OSM, but this is not to say this process is bulletproof. We are continually appreciative of keen eyes and local knowledge like yours to hold us accountable and push us to continue improving the way we do our work.

We’ll be following up, but don’t have all the answers at this moment. We want you all to know we take these criticisms seriously and will take steps to address any issues we can identify and avoid any potential future missteps.

Best Regards,
Nemanja Bračko
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