[OSM-talk] New user mistakenly nuking things

[Bráulio]

This is a great idea, in my opinion. I hope someone implements. The Windows
3.11 tutorial is a great example of how to do it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_s-py34eNU


2011/1/9 Donald Campbell II <donaciano2000 at gmail.com>

>   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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