[Talk-us] Arm chair mapping challenges

[Arun Ganesh]

>
> Yeah, I've had some problem edits from the MapBox paid editors as well not
> paying attention and believing that the Tiger data and Bing is pretty much
> 'always right'.  They most of the time don't even check the history of ways
> before they edit and add back in stuff that another 'on-the-ground' mapper
> removed when a road was rerouted (and clearly mentioned this in the
> changeset comment).  Or even take 2 seconds to see that the new
> 'residential' road they just added w/ a name is obviously in the wrong
> place when there's another road already in the OSM database with the same
> name less than 500 yards away and the one they're adding is smack dab right
> in the middle of a parking lot.


Its unfortunate that someone from our team made that error and would
appreciate it if you could drop a comment on the changeset to help us
understand why this happened.

At the scale of improvements we make, we do expect stray issues that might
be accidental rather than systemic. We have been coordinating and
documenting all our OSM mapping activities on our /mapping repo [1]. Its
open for anyone to provide feedback on our process itself and is useful for
those wanting to track our data improvement efforts.

Feel free to ping me anytime on #osm if something requires immediate
attention :)

[1] https://github.com/mapbox/mapping/issues/100


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Arun Ganesh
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