[OSM-talk] New OSM Quick-Fix service

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 10/16/2017 11:10 PM, Tobias Zwick wrote:
> Anyway, generally, with everyone raising the alarm about this tool, it
> would be a friendly gesture to either take the tool offline for now or
> set it to read-only mode

Or have it run on the dev API.

> So then, the solution is simple: Make the quick-fix tool to only record
> confirms and rejects into a separate database and let the tool not make
> actual edits to OSM. The confirms and most importantly the rejects are
> shown on the tool's interface, so the problems in the automatic query
> can be addressed.

The "Kort game" has followed a similar approach. When they started, they
first only recorded things internally and also had more than one user
confirm each edit. After test-driving that for a while and assessing the
quality of results, they started a discussion about if and how the Kort
results could automatically be applied to OSM. It was a slow process but
one that went to great lengths to respect how OSM works and not to
"disrupt" anything. The makers of "Kort" probably spent as much time on
making their tool acceptable to the community as they spent on
developing it - but that's what you have to do when you deal with humans
and not just an API.

Bye
Frederik

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