[Talk-ca] OpenStreetMap at the Crossroads – The Map Room

[john whelan]

There are guidelines on imports and change sets can be deleted if they
aren't followed but if you leave it too long it gets messy as others add to
the map.

Cheerio John

On 17 August 2016 at 18:44, Laura O'Grady <laura at lauraogrady.ca> wrote:

> Interesting post [1] following up on Michal Migurski's [2] comments,
> "openstreetmap: robots, crisis, and craft mappers", which were based on his
> thoughts after attending SOTM Seattle. It's basically a treatise
> categorizing mappers and (inadvertently) creating a hierarchy of value or
> importance.
>
> I recently exchanged messages via OSM with a "robot mapper" who did a
> bunch of imports in my areas. I asked this person some questions about
> their edits, pointed out some errors and invited them to present their work
> at a local OSM meeting. After a few exchanges I received no further
> response.
>
> I don't know what recourse there is for this (imports gone astray) or if
> OSM plans to address any of the issues outlined in the linked blog posts in
> the future. But I thought this community might want to discuss these ideas
> and the ensuing discussions in their respective comment sections.
>
> Laura
>
> -
> Laura O'Grady
> laura at lauraogrady.ca
>
> [1] http://www.maproomblog.com/2016/08/openstreetmap-at-the-crossroads/
> [2] http://mike.teczno.com/notes/openstreetmap-at-a-crossroads.html
>
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