[Talk-GB] dodgy edits without good explanation around Wokingham/Winnersh/Finchampstead

[Tony Shield]

Hi Jon

Developing and maintaining standards is a thankless task in everything 
we do. With so few OSM mappers operating mainly as individuals it is 
difficult to encourage, monitor and challenge. Quality control is 
extraordinarily difficult in OSM.

We do need mappers who are prepared to challenge some of the changes 
people make. So I encourage you to challenge.

I don't know Arborfield area so I don't know how to support your 
challenges other than by offering this encouragement.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/120849644 has been responded  to 
and in my opinion offers a non-OSM-mappable reference to google.

TonyS999


On 13/05/2022 10:20, Jon Pennycook via Talk-GB wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I'm getting concerned that I might be seen as victimising this person, 
> since no-one else seems to comment on their changes (except for DaveF 
> in one case).  Can someone look at 
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/JunKwonGD/history and let me know 
> if you also feel concerned about their edits? Some seem to be based on 
> copying from questionable sources ("street view" and "Google" for some 
> changesets, council documents for others, some changesets seem to be 
> based on some kind of plans from developers as they add things that do 
> not exist yet).
>
> It's frustrating because I've had to revert two recent changes (one 
> had changed the roads to what was shown on Google StreetView from 
> years ago, the other changed a now separated road into a joined road 
> (again not unlike StreetView) and added a non-existent road, not long 
> after I surveyed the area), and fix another (where all parts of a road 
> were joined, where one section was a bridge).
>
> If nothing else, the changeset comments are fairly useless and give no 
> idea about the source of the edits.
>
> Jon
>
>
>
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