[OSM-talk] OsmAnd financially rewarding mappers

[Richard]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 06:49:22PM +0100, moltonel 3x Combo wrote:
> On 03/03/2016, Marc Gemis <marc.gemis at gmail.com> wrote:
> > My point is that it might attract people that just upload data without
> > any benefit to OSM (wrong data or data that is added in many
> > changetsets (because that determines the ranking) instead of 1, as you
> > would normally do..
> > You can even write a script that creates a point in one changeset and
> > deletes it in another. Over and over again.
> 
> Even without talking about nefarious schemes, even well-meaning users
> will tend to change their mapping behavior because of this. In this
> case it's about uploading more often, potentially making changes
> harder to follow. 

imho it would be good if people would upload more often. Easier to revert
if it is wrong, more likely the changeset will fit into a reasonable 
bounding box.

However they should check that the edit was not done by a script. I don't think
this is ever going to work without human judgment.

Richard