[Talk-GB] Mapbox' mapping activity

[Brian Prangle]

Sonya

Judging by the user names  in your comments doc you are recruiting your
mappers from a  very restricted ethnic grouping (not  good HR policy)- or
perhaps you have outsourced it to a cheap labour jurisdiction which are
notorious for being ( naturally) lacking in knowledge of the cultural
nuances of a distant location. Why don't you recruit mappers for this
activity from the UK? The local chapter OSMUK operates a talent pool
<https://osmuk.org/professional-services/> for mappers who are seeking paid
work. You'd get a much higher quality input, have the ability to ground
truth things  and not piss off the OSM UK community so much. Or just
publish a list of errors as you see them by county and let the local
community clear things up?

I've had prior experience of a mapbox mapper remotely mapping from out of
date aerial imagery a new complex junction that I'd recently surveyed and
they edited out much of the survey data, reinstating roads that had been
razed ( and even introduced new errors from not really being able to read
aerial imagery) so I'm not very confident that your assurances will prevent
too much damage being done as your mappers move along their learning curve.

Regards

Brian


On Thu, 16 Sept 2021 at 18:20, Sonya Khilchyk via Talk-GB <
talk-gb at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

> Hi Andy!
>
> Thank you for raising these issues.
>
> We agree about how to investigate ground truth for edits. Only would like
> to mention that in case with broken turn restrictions they’re invalid due
> to missing role mostly, and in some cases there’s no need in them anymore
> (because of adding oneway road for example) and we don’t broke anything by
> deleting restrictions which not working. But we heard you and won’t delete
> if we are not 1000 % sure.
>
> About our not in time replies, sorry for that, it seems like it is just an
> issue of one person and we will work with a team and create better ways of
> controlling this issue. But generally our folks answer during the working
> day or in the next one (because we have different time zones). Exceptions
> can be if someone is on a sick leave or vacation.
>
> Also our team is doing all their best to improve data quality and
> resolving more than a thousand fixes per week now, so it’s possible to have
> some issues due to human factors. Despite the fact that we map according to
> our working tasks, we are still humans who can make mistakes but are always
> learning from them.
>
> And moreover, we are always staying respectful to any coming comments and
> feedback and awaiting the same way of communication from communities.
>
> Here is a link
> <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KR7Jwhw7GyDL4AKxOykSK5S8UUafuwLxz7DRerp8NnA/edit#gid=0>
> with response statistics of the team that participate in discussed
> projects. Here you can see that we answer the comments stable and as fast
> as possible.
>
> The team is already working on developing metrics that will allow us to
> track comments on our changesets. It also will help to respond on time and
> show some statistics to community if necessary.
>
>
> Best Regards, Sonya
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