[OSM-talk] Who is a good mapper? Who isn't?

[Richard Weait]

On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Dave Sutter <sutter at intransix.com> wrote:
> I like the idea of an automated quality checker for map edits. That can be seen as an advancement to the simple rules based checking done when a commit is done in JOSM.
>
> It might be easier to train the classifier if it concentrates on bad edits or bad commits rather than bad mappers.

Hopefully.  Perhaps my understanding of stats and analysis aren't up
to this task.  Most of the things I try to measure seem like tiny
signals buried in tons of noise.  And there really is a lot of
variation in normal mapping.  I know that I've committed single
changesets that look like bad mapping in isolation.  I'm sure that
most of us have.

I love what I'm seeing in some of the new tools.  changemonger is
giving human readable summaries of changesets.  The interest in
activity streams looks promising.  There are really cool things on the
horizon.