[OSM-talk] Holistic Map Editing (Was: Chain Store Cleanup)

[Bryce Nesbitt]

On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
>
> OSM editing is usually "holistic" - you work on many aspects of the map
> in an area. If the map has many edits by different people in an area
> then I can reasonably assume that it has a certain minimum quality
> because these people are on the ground fixing things.


 "holistic" editing is not the only sort.  The community is more diverse
than that.

You'll find mappers seeking out one feature (e.g. dog walk parks).
Mappers doing wiki or tag gardening (like the original poster).
Mappers working to consolidate tagging, and mappers working to split apart
tagging and make it explicit.
And those focused on data imports.

--

Quality on the ground is probably better measured by views, both among
mobile
apps like OsmAnd, and the tile servers.  Who cares enough about the map in
certain
areas to look at it?
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