[OSM-talk] Re: privacy policy

[J.D. Schmidt]

Joerg Ostertag wrote:
> On Friday 28 July 2006 12:45, Etienne wrote:
>> Currently making maps with OSM is quite a skilled process.  If we are to
>> get any where near 98% coverage we need to make it easier.  Currently there
>> are maybe 50 regular contributors in the UK.  To cover the UK we will need
>> more like 500 or 5000 contributors.
>>
>> Even skilled, concientious and diligent contributors can get it wrong.  The
>> very next road to me is named Vaillant Road.  For a long time that was in
>> OSM as Valliant Road.  Probably the only person who would spot that error
>> is someone who actually lives in that street.
>>
>> The tools aren't good enough to lower the bar much at the moment, but in
>> the longer term we need a lot more contributors and we need a way for
>> people with very very local knowledge to easily verify and flag up errors.
> 
> That is true Etiene. But we should (as Barnett already stated) wait until we 
> at least reach a relatively high amount of base segments.
> I think our goals for the next year should be:
>  - get all the tools working( you knew I would say that ;-)
>  - adding 99% of the Highway segments
>  - tagging 99% of these Highway segments (name=,highway=) more is optional
>  - adding 80% of the main streets in every big city.
>  - creating ways for these 80% main streets
>  - tagging tmain street ways (name=,highway=) more is optional
> I think we shouldn't even think about lowering the bar before we havn't 
> achieved this goal.
Concurred. Good points from both of you.

[Sarcastic Rant on]
And we should be able to do it from an anonymous account yesterday, or 
Imi will lay down on the floor, bite in the carpet, and kick all the 
furniture, and then threathen to leave the project... Again...

Then of course, we must ensure that Steve release all the data daily, in 
a form that both keeps the anonymity and at the same time ensure that 
all the edits are there, so we can backtrack through the released 
dataset, based on users, dates, names, and the colour of the GPS used to 
log the location.

Then we can talk about lowering the bar for the nincompoops that can't 
figure out how to register, so we can rename OSM to OSMTAOLW (Open 
Street Map The AOL Way).
[Sarcastic Rant Off]

Untill those things has been accomplished, could we all please go out 
and do some mapping, while letting the OSMF get on the road, and stop 
all the powerplays, threats and kindergarden semantics, so the project 
doesn't become another OS joke.

J.D. "Dutch" Schmidt.