[OSM-talk] What would make MapRoulette better?

James james2432 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 25 18:26:05 UTC 2017


There's already a false positive button for that. Skip is for meh don't
want to do that right now.



On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 12:51 PM, Stefan Keller <sfkeller at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 2017-11-24 22:18 GMT+01:00 Dave F <davefoxfac63 at btinternet.com>:
> >
> > On 24/11/2017 07:59, joost schouppe wrote:
> >>
> >> For example, "Skipped" to me means "meh, didn't feel like doing this
> >> task".
> >
> > No! it's an option to ignore the task if the user doesn't think there's
> > anything wrong.
>
> No: "Skip" IMHO really means what Joost said.
> What you described is "False positive".
>
> -Stefan
>
>
> 2017-11-25 11:39 GMT+01:00 Dave F <davefoxfac63 at btinternet.com>:
> > You need evidence that randomness combined with guesswork produces
> erroneous
> > output? Really? Look around, it's everywhere!
> >
> > DaveF
> >
> >
> > On 25/11/2017 01:37, Martijn van Exel wrote:
> >>
> >> I’d appreciate you back that statement up with some data that goes
> beyond
> >> some isolated examples, Dave.
> >>
> >>> On Nov 24, 2017, at 2:18 PM, Dave F <davefoxfac63 at btinternet.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 24/11/2017 07:59, joost schouppe wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> For example, "Skipped" to me means "meh, didn't feel like doing this
> >>>> task".
> >>>
> >>> No! it's an option to ignore the task if the user doesn't think there's
> >>> anything wrong. Maproulette is based on guesswork. A task doesn't mean
> >>> there's an error that definitely needs fixing
> >>>
> >>> There appears to be a compulsion by users to complete tasks in
> >>> Maproulette even when they have no *accurate* knowledge. This is
> wrong. It
> >>> adds *erroneous* data to OSM.
> >>>
> >>> There's a clue to Maproulette's randomness & uncertainty in its name.
> >>>
> >>> I believe a good way to improve OSM data is to ban Maproulette.
> >>>
> >>> DaveF
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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