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

[Norbert Wenzel]

On 08/11/2014 10:29 AM, Ed Loach wrote:
>> Since these notes are automatically generated there's no on you
>> could
>> ask for clarifications, which is needed for all issues. 
> 
> Are we still talking "Incorrect speed limit"? What clarification
> does that need? [...]

The start and end of the speed limit are not given. That's what I would
usually ask. And there are speed limits reported that I just don't
believe, eg. the famous 0km/h or 105km/h. Or speed limits in areas with
variable speed limits already tagged in OSM. An application that uses
OSM data and (semi)automatically reports issues should imo filter
obvious errors and *at least give a way for OSM to get in touch with the
application team* to tell them about problems in their
application/version of the OSM data.

> Anyway "Incorrect speed limit" is one that needs a survey, but not
> really clarification.

You could solve every problem in OSM by survey, but what's the point of
notes saying "survey needed"?

A lot of messages posted with the same text and known to be of dubious
quality are hiding those messages that are posted by a user on the
osm.org website. Usually users who post notes on the osm.org check back
if the map has changed so I'd like to fix these first.

I think this all boils down to the need for different categories of
notes. Those posted by single users that spot an error on the map and
who care about that report enough to possibly check back and give
further details and those of datausers that have their own crowd (or
tool/validator) that reports errors in the datausers version of OSM data
and where the user might not even know he has put a note on the osm.org
website, so no answer or feedback can be expected (and the report might
be bogus since the error might only be in the datausers data/app).

Norbert