[OSM-talk] Mapdust

[Philip Barnes]

On Fri, 2012-04-06 at 10:48 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> 
> On Apr 6, 2012 7:25 AM, "Philip Barnes" <phil at trigpoint.me.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Anyone else try to fix bugs off there? I have tried as I want to
> improve
> > OSM.
> 
> I do regularly in the Oklahoma, Kansas, Oregon and Washington areas.
> 
> > I am increasingly finding it a waste of time, too many bugs are
> labelled
> > 'other' and just don't have enough info to work out what the problem
> > is.
> 
> I close those as unreproducible with not enough information provided.
> I'm not sure if the Skobbler folks follow the lists, though it seems
> like it would be helpful if folks are logged in get a notification
> when someone comments or closes a bug if it doesn't do this already.
> Perhaps disallowing anonymous bug reports from apps would be of
> additional help.
> 
> > In these cases I usually close them, and work on the ones that are
> > solvable, or at least someone has bothered to try to describe the
> > problem. But now can't do that as 'word verification' is broken. I
> type
> > the code, but now it just gives me another code. What a useless
> site.
> 
> I wouldn't go that far.  It is possible to find diamonds in the rough
> that do provide some insight.
I know there is useful stuff there, was a bit frustrated with the word
verification, I always hate capchcas. Would much prefer to register and
login, I always use my OSM id and not anonymous on there anyway.

Phil