[OSM-talk] Addresses interpolation
Dmitry Kiselev
dkiselev at osm.me
Tue Jan 27 11:48:33 UTC 2015
>...and leave that editor free to make the same mistake again and again.
>They probably didn't realise they'd made a mistake, and a friendly note
>from you might stop the problem occurring again.
>
>Also, while they're correcting the mistake they've made, they may also
>spot places in the same area where the map needs updating. As a remote
>mapper, you're not going to be able to do this.
>
>That's why using QA tools is fine, but just blindly "fixing" errors
>without communicating with local mappers doesn't produce the best
>outcome for OSM overall.
>
>I do understand the urge to "fix" inconsistencies in the data like this,
>but until every single geographic feature on the face of the Earth is
>represented in OSM somehow, it shouldn't be our highest priority.
>
>J.
Seems to much extroversive for me.
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