[OSM-talk] Directed Editing Policy

Yuri Astrakhan yuriastrakhan at gmail.com
Wed Nov 22 15:48:13 UTC 2017


Thanks Frederik. This is a good explanation. Can some of it perhaps be
added to the document to make it clearer?

On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 6:22 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 22.11.2017 04:16, Yuri Astrakhan wrote:
> > Pierre, I suspect the number of QA-tool-driven changes are as big, if
> > not much bigger than changes from the organized events and paid editing.
> > I agree QA tools should be regulated, but are you sure we want to do it
> > in the same document, and significantly increase the scope?
>
> This is something that was discussed at length while drafting the
> policy, and you are certainly right, it *is* a difficult area.
>
> The spirit of the policy can largely expressed in "responsibility"
> terms; the policy, by and large, applies whenever the person being
> responsible for an edit is not the person making it.
>
> Most QA tools still require the user to take responsibility. If the QA
> tool says "here's a road that crosses a river without a bridge or ford
> or anything, please check on aerial imagery and apply correct tagging"
> then the responsibility clearly lies with the user. Even if the QA tool
> says "this road is tagged highway=residentail, should it perhaps be
> highway=residential instead?" the responsibility still lies with the
> user. You could go so far as to say: A QA tool that doesn't require the
> user to take responsibility is not a QA tool, it is a distributed
> mechanical edit and as such, covered by its own policy already.
>
> (Of course if I now set up "the great bridge fixing event" where I
> invite people to help me fix all these problems in one weekend, and
> provide detailed instructions to absolute newcomers on how to fix
> bridges, then there might be a point where responsibility shifts to me
> and I am now "directing" these people to use the QA tool to fix things.)
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
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