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

[Richard Weait]

What are the results?

Some respondents mentioned that close-but-not-touching ways made for a
"bad mapper" but were generally very understanding on this point.  It
was seen more as an indication of inexperience.

The Big Pet Peeve that identified bad mappers was "poor or missing comments."

I've taken a go at graphing comment quality.  This is not science of
course.  Try it yourself; how would you measure comment quality?

http://imgur.com/ibK76

The most common comment quality is 18.
Half of all accounts have comment quality from 13 to 36.
Bots usually have comment quality under one.

Many of the named bad mappers have comment quality under 6.  Given the
number of mappers who specifically mentioned comment quality, should
not be a surprise.

Can we predict bad mappers from bad comments?  Hard to say.  But we
can keep other mappers happy by writing good comments.  :-)