[OSM-Talk-ZA] Some elaborate fantasy/ proposed changes added

[John]

Thanks, It would be good if you can try to resolve this directly.

I agree most users have good intentions. You actually don't really expect
malicious behaviour.

John

On 12 May 2013 9:22 PM, "Gerhardus Geldenhuis" <
gerhardus.geldenhuis at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi John,
You see to have taken the neccesary steps to contact the user privately to
resolve the issue and to get a bit more clarity with regards to what he/she
were trying to do. I would say the next course of action would be to
potentially get the OSM admins involved to contact the user and/or flag all
future edits for the user to be reviewed. I am happy to contact the user
privately if you want to see if it could be resolved amicably. If he/she
does not respond at all then following steps in the vandalism link you
included would probably be the way forward.

The problem of data quality is always going to be looming in the background
and I believe more mature processes will develop to safeguard data quality
as OSM matures. There is people that are uploading  professionally surveyed
data so the quality can be very high. I believe that the vast majority of
people have good intentions and want it to be a better map. There is a
careful balance to be struck between encouraging new users and pointing out
problems with their contributions. The problems you describing does not
sound like new user problems though.

I have just myself reviewed contributions from other individuals to areas
on the SA map to which I have contributed weeks of my time mapping. One
tends to become very attached when having spend so much time ensuring good
quality mapping. I would certainly not appreciate any wrong data in my
areas of mapping.

Regards




On 12 May 2013 20:00, John <john.vez at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I agree that if they are proposed or U...

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