[OSM-talk] New user mistakenly nuking things

[Donald Campbell II]

>
>   I wonder how frequently something like this happens in some unmonitored
> area in the US.


I'm pretty sure it happens all over the place all the time.  I'm one of very
few people actively mapping Guyana and just last week this new user stuck a
town in the ocean.  So I politely messaged him and asked if he was sure it
belonged there and he was pretty positive it was correct.  So I sent him a
permalink of it floating out there in the sea... whooops.   Yeah that was an
accident.  There was also a kind of random 2m track connected to a town he
made and some other little odds and ends.

Enthusiasm is good though.

I've often wished casual visitors could put things on the map anonymously
and that they'd go into a big moderated bucket to await approval or rather
end up in a openstreetbugs kind of layer instead.  Or rather new registered
users could have "training wheels" of some sort for their first few edits.
Perhaps a set of Potlatch tutorials that would have them add the yellow
brick road to the land of Oz, then the Emerald city...  a few shops,
barbers, tailors, a field of poppies, apple orchard with paths, highways,
etc...

Then you get to touch the real world.   ;-)

Or just skip the whole thing if you like to keep the wiki-purists happy.  I
think wiki believers should watch Ratatouille...  yes ANYONE can edit, but
not ANYONE can be a great cook.   Or something like that.   :-)

-Don.
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