[OSM-talk] OSM Note 1000000

[Florian Lohoff]

On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 07:12:07PM -0300, Nicolás Alvarez wrote:
> Really? Calling it "notes" is one of the worst parts of this system.
> People in my area keep using them for personal notes / bookmarks
> (sometimes with content as meaningless as "it's here"), not
> understanding that their purpose is reporting errors or missing things
> on the map.

Is that the intended purpose? Says who? I do use it for personal notes
aswell although i try to give enough context that others can make use of
it.

> The map should say "report a problem", not "add a note".

Imho not - We as a regional group use the Notes aswell to coordinate
our work in certain areas. E.g. a new industrial area. The first thing
we open a Note mentioning links to Newspaper Articles, coordinating
when to go there for revisit etc. Teared down houses marked with 
landuse=construction - Mentioning when they got teared down and
when to revisit for the new buildings. Its a feature to coordinate
work as a group.

I think there are more perceptions what Notes are intended for and for
me its just a possibility to leave Notes at a geographic position. Not 
more not less.

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                                                 f at zz.de
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