[OSM-talk] OSM on The Reg

Kærast kaerast at qvox.org
Wed Feb 11 13:19:25 GMT 2009


On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:08:05 -0500
Adam Schreiber <sadam at clemson.edu> wrote:


> I agree, there should be some slight barrier to entry in which the
> mapper learns about communitty standards for adding data, especially
> dervied data.  The reason Google's MyMaps can allow just about
> anything is that it isn't added to the main map.  Even location edits
> aren't pushed out until they're reviewed.  We need to decide whether
> or not we will accept the burden of checking all edits made by drive
> by mappers.
> 

So then can't we do something similar?  Add a big button somewhere
linking to open street bugs, ask people where they are getting their
information from when they add a bug, possibly give them the ability to
add in more than a single node?

-- 
Alice




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