[OSM-talk] A plea for meaning ful changeset comments

[Ed Avis]

john whelan <jwhelan0112 <at> gmail.com> writes:

>Currently I'm cleaning up in Ottawa, I have over 8,000 errors to clean
>up left and recently I've probably cleaned at least a couple of
>thousand errors so far.  Things like incorrect street names, where I
>have a CANVEC source that helps enormously, connecting streets up so
>you can run routing software. etc.
>
>Are you seriously suggesting for each correction I do a write up
>saying why I or Validator think its wrong and my source for the
>correction?

I do something similar cleaning the data using the http://keepright.ipax.at/
data checker, primarily fixing junctions so the map is routable.  Ordinarily
I'll just write 'fixed junctions' as the comment.  Only if I think there is
some potential doubt or controversy will I note my reasons for making a
particular assumption.

<http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/5332272> is an example:
"OS indicates this road joins the other one to its west, and the aerial photo 
shows at least a gap between buildings, so I'll assume it does."
But that long message is the exception.

-- 
Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>