[OSM-talk] Helping mappers feel comfortable about their contributions / quality control

[Tim Waters]

I also think that a voluntary opt-in review system would work - and only
really needs someone to write one, and a JOSM plugin, and a Potlatch 2
patch. It's on my list of things to do, but I doubt I will ever get around
to doing it. But that's all that needs happen by someone - do-ocracy etc...

In terms of what's in it for the user - the reviewer sees newbies edits in
their area of interest - they can help maintain the area, and the newbie, of
course would get valuable feedback.

lots of love,

chippy.


On 26 September 2011 21:26, Gregory <nomoregrapes at googlemail.com> wrote:

> I add a source tag to a lot of my changesets now. The OSM site these days
> makes it very easy to click back and forth between  changesets and objects.
>
> I gave a talk/demo recently on how to edit OSM. I started by introducing
> myself and then saying "right, we are now friends. Once you've made an edit,
> feel free to contact me in the ways mentioned and I will happily check your
> edit/data works and there aren't any obvious mistakes."
> I'm aware that really helps people. It's why a lot of people become OSM'ers
> after going to a mapping party/event. And I think the teacher inviting
> communication with them is the way to do it. At my first mapping party I
> only learnt how to survey, but it helped just knowing there were real people
> I could contact.
>
> The other thing is that I watch my area (through the OWL viewer/rss feed)
> for edits, especially if they are new users. I try to contact all of them
> with a friendly & local message, sometimes offering them advise on what
> additional tags they could have used.
>
>
> On 20 September 2011 17:50, John Sturdy <jcg.sturdy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Mike N <niceman at att.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >  Even today, I would find it confusing to edit a group of objects which
>> have
>> > source tags - it would be more intuitive to put the source in the
>> changeset,
>>
>> That makes sense to me --- surely most changes in a changeset will
>> have the same source.  Perhaps it could cascade / inherit, so that a
>> "source" attached to an individual object will override the "source"
>> of the changeset.
>>
>> __John
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