[Talk-us] Mapbox mapping activity

[Sonya Khilchyk]

Thanks for your feedback, our team will be more accurate with our edits.

We make fixes based on OSM sources: satellite or street level photos.
According to our workflow we don't fix confusing objects before we find
sources. If we don’t find the groundtruth source we don’t map at all. In
such cases we clarify the road situation by sending notes or asking local
mappers.

Also I will add more information about automatic uploading on the wiki
page.

We are always open to comments and feedback.


On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 6:57 PM Mike Thompson <miketho16 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sonya and the Mapbox Team,
>
> Thanks for the information.
>
> One bit of caution.  I have seen many edits in OSM, including a few from
> Mapbox, where edits are made solely to make an error go away.  In other
> words, it is not clear in the available sources what ground truth is, so
> the mapper simply makes an edit such that the error no longer shows up,
> even if that means OSM data may not reflect truth.  In these cases one
> should leave the error, perhaps with a note, so that a local mapper with
> first hand knowledge can make the true correction.  For example, I have
> seen cases where a road crosses a waterway and it is not clear in the
> available imagery whether there is a bridge, culvert or ford.  This
> triggers an error, so a mapper simply adds a ford to make the error go
> away.  This is worse than doing nothing.
>
> Also, on the wiki page, it is not clear what you mean by "We completely
> switched to automatic uploading and searching for data errors.", even
> though earlier you stated that this was a manual process.
>
> Mike
>
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 7:27 AM Sonya Khilchyk via Talk-us <
> talk-us at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello from the Mapbox Team!In a few days our team is going to start a
>> mapping project in the USA.
>> As part of on-going work to improve the quality of OpenStreetMap data,
>> our team is planning to review a subset of the detections to better
>> understand the type of issues, and also fix any valid data issues directly
>> in the OSM.
>> We would really appreciate your feedback, any questions you have about
>> this project, as well as local insights that you think will help us better
>> understand the data.wiki page
>> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Organised_Editing/Activities/Resolve_linting_issues_in_The_USA>
>> , ticket <https://github.com/mapbox/mapping/issues/373>Cheers,
>> Member of Mapbox team, Sonya
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