[OSM-talk] "Incorrect speed limit" anonymous notes - who is behind that?

[JB]

Hello,
I think I will reopen the debate here, by asking a simple question: how 
many of those saying "hey, let this note open, it does no harm to 
anybody" have actually browsed a country for its opened notes and tried 
to close them? How many have done the same with openstreetbugs during 
its last year of life?
If you have not, let me tell you, loud and clear: the note database will 
become unusable soon. When you browse 10 notes and are forced to leave 9 
open because it does provide no clean information, you just stop trying. 
That is why during OSB close up, I found so many notes of that kind 
(continue the path, this is wrong, this does not exist, etc.), that 
where just not clear enough, or where just too old (the correction had 
been done without OSB), and most of them where more than 2 years old. 
And this is why OSB was a mess in the end.
I have tried to keep the DB clean in France, am still trying by beeing 
less narrow-minded, but I just see its quality decreasing every day.
So I do not have the exact number, but adding some 10s of little valued 
notes every week saying "this speed limit may be wrong", some of them 
added by error (not along a highway) does not seem an improvement to the 
notes DB to me.
JB.


Le 10/08/2014 09:42, Martin Koppenhoefer a écrit :
>
>> Il giorno 09/ago/2014, alle ore 13:56, Norbert Wenzel <norbert.wenzel.lists at gmail.com> ha scritto:
>>
>> just seeing these notes along a
>> motorway every few kilometers. And since these messages don't tell what
>> the actual speed limit should be and where it starts it gets really
>> annoying to close all these automatically generated notes.
>
> why are you closing them, if you can't solve the issue? I would keep them open, if you are not sure that the limit is correct in OSM
>
> cheers,
> Martin
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