[Talk-ca] Low quality unresolvable notes

[Clifford Snow]

On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 7:32 PM, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> wrote:

> I've been catching up on local notes, and have come across a few I'm not
> sure how to resolve. There are a number which are equivalent to "There is a
> <some name of shop> somewhere in this block." While probably correct,
> they're not very useful.
>
> The notes aren't bug reports, the original intent of notes/OpenStreetBugs.
> They're not precise enough to resolve, so basically all the information
> they contain is that there are shops here which could be added if a site
> survey was done. A site survey would be nice, but there's plenty of areas
> where that is so - if someone opened up notes everywhere they were needed
> in the area, they'd make other notes less valuable and probably end up
> closed.
>
> I'm leaning towards closing them as not reporting a bug nor providing
> specific enough information to add something to the map, but wanted to get
> the thoughts of others.
>

I've been reluctant to act on these, especially when posted by anonymous
users. My concern is the lack of source information. For all we know the OP
used google or yelp to get the information. If the notes can be validated
with on site surveys then I suppose it is reasonable to leave them.

If the note is has a user id, then they should be left for that person to
add the tag.

Clifford


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