[OSM-talk] OsmAnd financially rewarding mappers

[Lester Caine]

On 04/03/16 11:06, Janko Mihelić wrote:
> 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.

A mechanism that reduces entitlement for reverted activity is essential
and I don't think the OSMANDLive process even acknowledges that.

(and trim properly if you must top post please)

>     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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