[OSM-talk] OSM Note 1000000

[Paul Johnson]

On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 11:46 AM, Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:
>
> So I think we are all talking about low-quality anonymous notes here,
> and perhaps the way forward is to stop having anonymous notes.   We
> could even let people sign up for a notes-only account (with 2-way
> email) without agreeing to the CT, in some lighter-weight way.  But
> probably this is not worth the dev/sysadmin time.
>

I'm not against this, *per se*, but there is value in not having notes that
don't necessarily have someone behind them that cares enough to register to
OSM to contribute constructive criticism.


> Another approach would be to prohibit apps from entering anonymous
> notes, but to allow the website to do it.  Or to somehow have guidelines
> for the apps to get the quality up.  Someone using maps.me or equivalent
> that navigates to an OSM feature and is saying "I am x m from the
> feature's location and the feature <type, name> is not here." is
> actually pretty useful, even if sometimes wrong.   So some leaing on
> apps could help.
>

Even having a situation where app *x* tracks notes opened by proxy by app
user *y* and can notify that user would be *extremely* helpful.  For
example, if Craigslist or maps.me users had to register in order to
contribute feedback about the map through Criagslist or maps.me, and those
then contributed the note, great.  For example, Craigslist user
joe at example.com opens note 14159265, Craigslist (and not Anonymous) opens
note 14159265, and joe at example.com gets the feedback from note 14159265,
that would be awesome.

Not to pick on Craigslist, I'm happy for the service they provide the
public and that they use OSM, but the notes generated by Craigslist users
are of remarkably low quality in my area, without a typical means of
feedback or clarification right now.


> Separately, we could agree that it's ok to just summarily close a note
> if you're a mapper in the area and you either are confident that it
> can't be understood or is confused.   Having read this discussion I
> certainly will be less hesitant to click Closed for notes where I feel
> local.
>

I generally agree with this assessment.
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