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

[Kate Chapman]

Hi Christoph,

The flaw with this logic is that people in HOT are not participating in the
OSM community. Is the OSM community to remain static and "conventions" made
years ago may never change? Do we not have the same goal of a free map of
the entire world?

-Kate

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 1:44 AM, Christoph Hormann <chris_hormann at gmx.de>
wrote:

> 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/
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