[Talk-GB] Large swaths of "heath" in Wales?

[Andy Townsend]

On 13/02/2017 18:19, Marco Boeringa wrote:
>
> But I will leave this to all you now to decide. 

Just for info, I'm currently going backwards through the relevant 
changesets by the same user* in north Notts in areas that I'm (very) 
familiar with and am fixing or removing "obviously wrong landuse" there.

Once I've done those I'll go onto the south wales areas which was one of 
the places where the problem was first noticed, and do the same there.

A quarterly project to "get rid of stuff that's obviously geometrically 
wrong" would work I think, but remapping would need local knowledge 
and/or ground survey.  It's a user without local knowledge trying to 
"colour in the map remotely" that got us into this mess in the first 
place.  Of course, there are a number of places where people _do_ have 
good local knowledge, and I'd hope that they'd join in the clean-up 
effort if they aren't already doing so.

There's a more general question, and that's how we deal with mappers 
that mean well, but after many years simply aren't very good.  With a 
DWG hat on I occasionally come across people of whom local communities 
say "Can't you just stop them?  They're rubbish!".  As a project, I 
don't think that we have a good solution to this yet. All the help sites 
(learnosm et al) and friendly changeset discussion comments in the world 
aren't enough in some cases.  All suggestions gratefully received...

Best Regards,

Andy

* to be clear, the original _one_ mapper that was blocked several times 
by the DWG for not responding to changeset discussion comments.