[OSM-talk] A message to our friends at HOT, Peace Corps etc. about Changeset Comments

[Michael Reichert]

Hi,



Am 19. November 2015 01:52:40 MEZ, schrieb john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>:
> HOT and OSM are slightly different, HOT maps on OSM but uses a simpler
> more
> standardized approach.  

HOT uses the OSM database/platform and therefore it has to adapt and follow OSM's rules. Nobody forces you to use OSM. Why don't you do something like OpenHistoricalMap and use your own database basrd on OSM software?

> HOT tends to map in areas that do not have a great deal of OSM mapping
> already in place so I don't see that it really matters if they use
> preset
> comments from the tile system.  The HOT comment gives you the task and
> tile
> number so you can look up on the tile system where it is and also what
> has
> been asked for.

A mapper should be able to get an idea what has been edited at a given changeset without decrypting the changeset comment using an external service (HOT tasking manager in this case). Who guarantees that HOT tasking manager will still be online in 5 or 10 years?

Best regards

Michael
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