[OSM-talk] Worldwide non-surveyed tag edits

[Glenn Plas]

Can anybody tell me why a surveyor or tracer is free to keep adding
restuarants without punishment, but a gardener should follow a long
procedure to fix that ?

> Surveyors have a very high standing in OSM. They are what differentiates
> us from the the rest. A project with just surveyors and no gardeners can
> work; a project with just gardeners and no surveyors cannot.
(with my end-consumer / map visitor hat on)

But I still can't find that damn 'restaurant' back!   So it doesn't work 
for me.. Now I'm a disgruntled user.  So where is the added value of the 
surveyor now ?  We are looking at this too much from a developer / 
techie / geek / superuser / ubermapper point of view. Aren't we doing 
all this to actually retrieve _useful_ information from the data ?

The consumer doesn't care as in his perception: The restaurant is not 
there in the first place.   Unless a gardener steps in to weed it out. 
    It's 100% a team effort, and thinking about it more deeply:  This 
project wouldn't even be here without either of them. So I don't think 
this analogy applies at all.  Even though it sounds like a clever 
statement and I -personally- get a warm fuzzy feeling reading it.

Glenn

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