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

[Richard Weait]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 4:20 AM, Kevin Peat <k at k3v.eu> wrote:
> 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.

Directly measuring the quality of the edits sounds hard.  Some mappers
find low quality comments sufficient to consider a mapper to be lower
quality.  I know that this won't apply in all cases.

> 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.

That might be a way to measure edit quality.  hmmm.