[OSM-talk] Directed Editing Policy

[Yuri Astrakhan]

While this might not have been the intention, the

  >  b) directed by a third party exactly what and how to contribute to
OpenStreetMap

can be applied to any "challenge style" sites such as the MapRoulette or
Osmose.  I think there should either be a clarification about this, an
additional discussion with the community, or a specific exclusion.  I know
that the preamble is talking about paid editing, schools, and mapping
events, but the text below it seems to have a wider scope.

On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 8:23 PM, Mateusz Konieczny <matkoniecz at gmail.com>
wrote:

> > This policy applies as soon as someone is
> > directed by a third party exactly what and how to contribute to
> > OpenStreetMap.
>
> Maybe it would be a good idea to exclude small scale guided
> editing. For example my friend asked me to show how OSM worked.
>
> I showed him/her a map and asked to find something missing or mistake
> and later showed how to add this.
>
> It was clearly a guided editing as defined here - and I am not going to
> set up wiki pages etc before doing this the next time.
>
> ---
>
> Other situation where somebody wanted to to delete object from map and
> asked for help would be probably saved by and in "what and how" - (s)he
> had an idea what should be changed.
>
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