[OSM-talk] The real face of MAPS.ME edits and notes - a short analysis
Bjoern Hassler
bjohas+mw at gmail.com
Mon Jun 12 09:25:08 UTC 2017
Dear friends,
I would like to commend maps.me for creating an easy-to-use mobile app that
makes OpenStreetMap available to many more people. For example, there are
many amazing uses of OpenStreetMap via maps.me in disconnected areas of our
planet, that make people's lives better and often save lives. As a
community, should we not be interested in more users and more diversity
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Diversity?
Clearly quality can be an issue, but it's not just an issue on maps.me,
it's an issue with any tool and any community. Of course, the more people
use a tool, the more of an issue it becomes.
I have two concrete suggestions:
(1) Given that you have looked into the issues around maps.me, could you
formulate a suggestion how some of the issues could be improved, in
particular what sort of UI improvements in maps.me might stop people
entering wrong/redundant data?
(2) Would it be worth discussing strategies for quality assurance
somewhere? There doesn't seem to be a mailing list dedicated to this -
maybe there should be one?
Many thanks for your contributions,
Bjoern
On 12 June 2017 at 09:39, Tomas Straupis <tomasstraupis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2017-06-11 6:29 GMT+03:00 MichaĆ Brzozowski wrote:
> > Much has been said about MAPS.ME note and edit functionality on this
> > list and elsewhere. I tried to get a real picture of how good/bad they
> > are. I went to mmwatch.osmz.ru and assessed 73 edits/notes made
> > between June 6th and 10th in Poland. Then I made a spreadsheet
> > (percentages at the bottom):
> > <...>
> > No issues: 26% (only!)
> > <...>
> > Given this, I'm actually interested in how things look in places
> > without any established local community. After all, MAPS.ME is popular
> > all around the world.
>
> If there is no local community - nobody will be able to answer...
>
> But in general the only way is to check all c$@#.me edits and have
> reverting tools on hand. After some time you would even notice that
> there is no point in wasting even more time by writing to those
> "editors" and will revert without asking. Also helps to not
> promote/mention the name of the app and try to discourage people from
> using it by explaining the problems or at least giving bad rating in
> google play.
>
> And this is likely not going to change, because creators have an
> illusion that it is "very good" to have thousands of people crapping
> map data and wasting time of power-mappers if out of that one thousand
> one single person actually becomes a mapper mapping with proper tools
> (at least iD/Potlatch).
>
> It seems that quantity gets a huge priority against quality...
>
> --
> Tomas
>
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