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

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 11/19/2015 11:16 AM, Ben Abelshausen wrote:
> You can go the tasking manager and see exactly what the goal of the
> mapping activity was, who is the admin that created the task and who
> validates, what mappers contributed and so on.

I doubt that most OSMers would even know which tasking manager to go to
without first googling for it. And will the same tasking manager and the
same task ID still be there in a few years' time? Are the operators of
the tasking manager giving a promise to keep an archive about their
completed tasks available for as long as OSM exists so that people can
later find out what the mapping activity was supposed to be?

> That doesn't mean things couldn't be better. Maybe moving some
> information to the changeset tags may be a solution, the id of the task
> for example, and the tile or some description in the comment.

I'd certainly say so. Maybe this is not something that can be done
tomorrow as some processes, software, or even teaching material would
have to be adapted, but I'd certainly prefer a changeset description
that does not depend on external resources for resolving.

Bye
Frederik

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