[Talk-GB] The state of Bristol in OSM

[Brian Prangle]

Hi all

I've been systematically clearing, together with Andy Robinson, Birmingham
and the West Mids for a couple of weeks. We have one prolific local mapper
who hasn't accepted which means a lot of work in the Black Country and
Coventry. Biggest issues so far are the motorways, ways that are part of
relations and non-accepters who are in fact bots which have done a lot of
cleaning up  of typos and mis-tags.  Also beware the Geofabrik tool listing
data loss as "harmless" - what this really mean is that the original data
before the non-accepter touched it won't be lost but maybe a dozen
subsequent edits adding and improving the data will be. So far of the dozen
users I've contacted I've had one positive response. Good luck!

Regards

Brian

On 13 January 2012 20:03, Chris Hill <osm at raggedred.net> wrote:

> On 13/01/12 16:36, Tom Chance wrote:
>
>> 2012/1/13 Tim François <sk1ppy14 at yahoo.co.uk <mailto:sk1ppy14 at yahoo.co.uk
>> >>
>>
>>
>>    Oh bummer - didn't mean to send to Talk-GB, just the local Bristol
>>    mappers! Oh well, it's out there now...
>>
>>
>> I think it's good to get everyone thinking about this for their local
>> area. I've only recently started to do something about it, but it can take
>> quite a lot of time to identify and contact people, wait for them to
>> respond (or not) and then remap if necessary.
>>
> I've started replacing the problem areas in East Yorkshire. I am waiting
> for a short while longer for the people who have not responded, but most of
> their work is countryside footpaths which may not replaced until the
> weather warms up and some of the mud dries out.
>
>
>> I'd rather not find big chunks of south east London and little segments
>> of major roads disappear overnight if I can help it.
>>
>>
>>  +1
>
> I've also been helping a new mapper in Lincolnshire. Sadly he was
> improving an area that is by an undecided who hasn't responded to my
> contact messages. The newbie knew nothing about the potential trap he was
> walking into. I think we should be particularly vigilant about making sure
> that newbies, who know nothing about the tools out there, don't end up with
> their work compromised in 80 days time.
>
> --
> Cheers, Chris
> user: chillly
>
>
>
> ______________________________**_________________
> Talk-GB mailing list
> Talk-GB at openstreetmap.org
> http://lists.openstreetmap.**org/listinfo/talk-gb<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/attachments/20120113/be9f93a9/attachment.html>