[OSM-talk] Organizational mapping policy

[Alex Rollin]

Maybe someone could remind folks about the ...wasn't there a...did I hear
about a "test server"?  Something like a sandbox?

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Alex


On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:14 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 14.05.2014 11:09, Jóhannes Birgir Jensson wrote:
> > The focus needs to be on the problem at hand,
>
> "The problem at hand" is currently at a scale that can still be handled
> on a case-by-case basis; the reason DWG is thinking about a general
> guideline is not that we're trigger happy bureaucrats but that we'd like
> everyone to know the rules of play rather than making them up as we go
> along, and that we assume that the number of such cases might be on the
> rise.
>
> > which I gather is
> > companies hiring people to map things using their own methodology
> > incompatible with current OSM tagging guidelines.
>
> No, that is one potential issue but by far not the only aspect.
>
> Consider a real-life situation like this:
>
> * User complains "fictional data is added all over my city!"
> * Investigation finds 10 accounts having added fictional data;
> * further investigation finds that 10 other accounts have signed up at
> the same time from the same network, but have added things that do not
> immediately look bad (things that might or might not be factual)
> * reaching out to those who edited the most brings zero reply (possibly
> because their native language is not English nor anything spoken by
> anyone in DWG)
>
> Even reconstructing the whole situation takes quite a bit of time; and
> then we have to decide which bits to revert and which to keep. Is this a
> course that was misunderstood, or just organized doodling, or what? How
> can we reach the teacher (if any)?
>
> In this specific instance we decided to revert everything contributed by
> the whole group - surely not the optimum outcome for an OSM training
> course!
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
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