[Talk-GB] mapping activity

[Andy Townsend]

On 19/08/2021 11:07, Sonya Khilchyk via Talk-GB wrote:
> Hello from the Mapbox Team!
>
> In August our team is going to start a mapping project in the UK.
> As part of on-going work to improve the quality of OpenStreetMap data, 
> our team is planning to review a subset of the detections to better 
> understand the type of issues, and also fix any valid data issues 
> directly in the OSM.
> We would really appreciate your feedback, any questions you have about 
> this project, as well as local insights that you think will help us 
> better understand the data.
>
Firstly - thanks for communicating here.  As other people have said, 
this is probably the best place.  Your post in the forum was the first 
for several months.

Unfortunately I have to say that some recent Mapbox-team edits ("based 
on driver feedback") haven't been great - one example was deleting a 
road at https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/109076919 because 
someone couldn't drive there - walking past the end of the road showed 
that at the very least there was pedestrian access.

I'd also suggest that you rename 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Resolving_lintings_problems_in_the_UK 
to something specific to your project and your company, since that is 
what it is.  In fact - please follow 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Organised_Editing_Guidelines , 
create an entry at 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Organised_Editing/Activities (though 
there seems to be an entry there from 2019?) with a wiki page that 
explains what you're doing.

Currently there is no useful content at 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Resolving_lintings_problems_in_the_UK 
so we can't really comment on what you may or may not be planning to do 
- I'm sure that people will have lots of comments once you do explain 
what you might be considering doing.

Best Regards,

Andy