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

[Peter Wendorff]

Am 11.10.2012 10:20, schrieb Kevin Peat:
> On 10 October 2012 21:22, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:
>> What are the results?
>> ...
>> 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.
>>
> Equating changeset comment quality with mapper quality is total BS.
> Descriptive comments are helpful to other mappers but that is all.
> They don't tell you anything about the quality of the changes.
>
> I think that in well mapped areas if your contributions persist over
> time then probably you are a good mapper. If your changesets are
> frequently reverted or your contributions are quickly edited by others
> then probably not.
+1
But for the "quickly edited by others" part -1:
If these changes refer to different attributes, that's totally fine.
A mapper who maps streets, but isn't interested in the surface tag or 
width, another mapper active in the same region is and adds that 
regularly later, it's totally fine.
But: Probably it's true that frequent changes of other mappers at 
existing tags mapper A added before is a good hint for a bad mapper.

regards
Peter