[Talk-us] Need someone in the south to review an edit

Paul Johnson baloo at ursamundi.org
Sat Jun 15 14:29:41 UTC 2019


On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 7:45 AM Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 6/14/19 10:27 PM, Rihards wrote:
> > I zoomed in on one location, and the node was, judging by the imagery,
> > on a street (literally). I hope Brandify does not set locations from
> > Google address searches.
>
> I did that a few days ago when investigating this large deletion, and
> also found that many of the objects are bang in the middle of roads.
> Which means at the very least that their location has not been visually
> inspected by the uploader.
>

I'm not against companies for hire mapping, but...do we have any guidelines
actually requiring them to accurately geocode what they're bringing?  Kind
of feel like most of my dedicated mapping time is now spent dealing with
SEO spam and low quality brand location data.
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