[talk-au] "Missing" Roads in Queensland

[Andrew Harvey]

Thanks for the diligent report Nemanja.

On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 at 23:54, Nemanja Bracko (E-Search) via Talk-au <
talk-au at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

> 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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