[OSM-talk] OsmAnd financially rewarding mappers

[Janko Mihelić]

Paying mappers should have a very intricate web of defined jobs and
reviewers. Ideally, OSM Tasking Manager should be used. "Map all forests
and roads in this square, I review, and you get 0.1 bitcoins". Anything
less strict is prone to misuse.

Janko

pet, 4. ožu 2016. u 10:36 Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> napisao je:

> On 03/03/16 11:17, Marc Gemis wrote:
> > If I understand the discussion on [1] correctly OsmAnd will reward
> > mappers with bitcoins. The bitcoins seem to be paid via a formula
> > based on the number of changesets you upload.
> >
> > I think this is a bad idea, (just like Jack Burke illustrates with the
> > Dilbert strips in the linked topic).
> > What do you think about this ? How should we deal with this ?
>
> http://osmand.net/osm_live#information seems to be the correct
> information? Personally I would associate 'live' in relation to a
> routing application to be live updates of traffic conditions, and I
> could understand the monetising of that data, but this does not seem to
> be addressing that particular problem at all?
>
> As someone actively contributing currently, while an income from that
> would be welcome, I don't think this third party activity is helpful to
> OSM! In the first instance I have no intention of contributing to
> bitcoin since I think it's main reason for existence is to hid scammers
> and until that secrecy is removed ... I will not be signing up ...
>
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