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

[SomeoneElse]

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

I'd agree with Kevin that changset comment length isn't always a good 
indicator of changset quality.  Changeset comment spelling might be a 
start, though...

However, in addition to "do changes persist", which has already been 
mentioned, there are a couple of other possibilities - one is to allow 
direct voting on changesets (again already been mentioned elsewhere).  I 
think that this could work - the voting on the help.osm.org site 
generally speaking works very well - people occasionally whinge about 
offtopic questions or poor answers being downvoted, but it's fairly rare.

Another option would be to score changesets based on how many bugs they 
contribute to sites such as  http://keepright.ipax.at .  It wouldn't 
identify the particularly good changesets, but could identify some 
common errors.

Cheers,
Andy