[Talk-us] armchair mappers putting errors back into the map
Richard Welty
rwelty at averillpark.net
Sun Mar 3 18:14:46 UTC 2019
On 3/3/19 1:06 PM, Andy Townsend wrote:
> On 03/03/2019 16:09, Richard Welty wrote:
>> what can/should we be doing about this sort of stuff? i'm really
>> at a bit of a loss here.
>>
> Aside from the excellent technical suggestion that's already been made,
> I'd suggest a polite changeset discussion comment, explaining that the
> imagery that they're using there is out of date or wrong for some other
> reason.
>
> Changeset discussion comments have an advantage over direct OSM messages
> in that they are visible to all, which tends to mean that (a) everyone
> is that much more nice to each other and (b) other mappers may know that
> there is a potential problem. Also, if you get no reply and need to ask
> the Data Working Group for help we can easily see the details of the
> problem, without have to ask you to repeat what you've already sent in PMs.
> Andy (from the DWG)
Good suggestion; i have added a changeset comment describing my concerns.
a review of the bio of the mapper in question shows that he is not
just an armchair mapper, he is a corporate armchair mapper. i don't
know if that makes it better or worse.
richard
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