[OSM-talk] Worldwide non-surveyed tag edits

[Marc Gemis]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 5:35 AM, Andrew Guertin <andrew.guertin at uvm.edu>
wrote:

> "Gardening" carries the risk that, when done incorrectly, it's not just
> the map that's impacted negatively, but the community as well. When people
> see their work improved upon that's great, but when their work is discarded
> or even worse edited to something that's wrong, that hurts.
>
> Surveying doesn't carry that risk at all.
>

Surveying has the same risk, when a stubborn mapper keeps adding duplicate
information or mapping according to his rules. It is demotivating for the
gardeners that try to teach him how to properly map and correct his data.
We have a case in Belgium were a certain mapper keeps mapping speedcams so
they appear in 1 app. He neglects all previously mapped enforcement
relations. One of our well-respected mappers is getting demotivated by
this. So please do not give all surveyors a higher status than gardeners.

You need gardeners, especially in countries with a relative small group of
active mappers, because you do not have enough people to go out and verify
each and every typo on the street. So please let the gardeners take care of
the "restuarants", the renaming of all banks in a country when they once
again change their name, etc. without to much hurdles.

regards

m

p.s. I'm not a gardener, most of my edits are done after surveys or from
aerial images (lanes + turn:lanes at this moment)
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