[OSM-talk] OsmAnd financially rewarding mappers

[moltonel 3x Combo]

On 03/03/2016, Richard <ricoz.osm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.

There's a happy middle. Some people make too many tiny changesets,
others make too few huge changesets. And nobody make the right amount
of correctly-sized changesets, because that's subjecctive :p

Analysing (perhaps even reverting) a swarm of small changesets is as
much a PITA as huge changesets. Avoid editing very distant points in
the same changeset. Avoid mixing very different tasks (say pure
armchair stuff and survey results) in the same changeset. Avoid doing
5 changesets in an hour for the same location/road/object. Rule of
thumb: if writing a reasonably-precise changeset comment is
complicated or if you used the same comment 20 times today, you should
review the size of your changesets.