[OSM-talk] Quality of OSM Notes

[Hans De Kryger]

On Feb 20, 2015 6:00 PM, "Greg Troxel" <gdt at ir.bbn.com> wrote:
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> Bryce Nesbitt <bryce2 at obviously.com> writes:
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> > 6) Lazy Requests to do cleanup that the note writer did not want to do
> > themselves.
>
> That's unnecessarily perjorative.  I've seen a number of notes around me
> that could be characterized that way, and I've entered a number myself.
> I view it as a public shared todo list.  I've fixed some of them myself,
> others (esp. oceanvortex) have fixed some, and some remain.   It's far
> faster to drop a note than to do the work, and often it's simply a
> matter of half an hour with bing and tiger or the massgis parcels layer
> to resolve.
>
> I consider this use case to be a successful example of notes.
>
> That said, there is a lot of junk.  But I just close them if I can't
> figure them out and if I'm fairly sure I wouldn't be able to if I showed
> up.
>
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