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

[john whelan]

My favourite of the day  "Fair Oaks Crescent / Beechcliffe Street" for
a street name, its actually two streets that have been linked
together, so break them apart and name them correctly.

Cheerio John

On 31 July 2010 12:46, Tobias Knerr <osm at tobias-knerr.de> wrote:
> john whelan wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Usually, corrections can be grouped - for example, by fixing all the
> incorrectly joined junctions in an area first, then uploading with an
> appropriate changeset comment.
>
> That's a lot of errors, by the way. Have those errors been created by
> humans or by some import? Everything I modify was manually created by a
> human being, so it's a reasonable assumption that someone will be
> interested in my reasons for changing their work. They might even learn
> something from it and don't repeat the same mistakes in the future, thus
> I might actually be saving time that I would otherwise have spent on
> fixing those future errors.
>
> The situation could be somewhat different when fixing import errors,
> which is something I'm not familiar with.
>
> Tobias Knerr
>
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