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

[Christoph Hormann]

On Thursday 19 November 2015, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>
> #MissingMaps #hotosm-project-12345 Lubumbashi, Congo (DRC)
> #100mapathons #OSMGeoWeek
>
> This is *not* useful.

But to be fair this is not only the fault of the mappers but also of the 
HOT project managers since they specifically instruct mappers to use 
such changeset comments.  

Generally the HOT project mapping instructions contain a lot of things 
that are questionable from the viewpoint of the OSM community.  IMO HOT 
needs to make sure these comply with the OSM conventions, for example 
by sourcing these instructions from the OSM wiki and allowing the OSM 
community to provide input and fixes this way.

-- 
Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/