[OSM-talk] Your experience in reaching out to Maps.me users ?

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Dec 4, 2020, 17:37 by michael.montani95 at gmail.com:

> nothing is letting them know that they are actually vandalising the map.
>
If they continue to edit and ignore comments then contacting Data Working Group
would be the next step (they can use 0-time block that makes sure that someone
will read message before further editing).

>  It's difficult also to proceed with full reverts because some tags from time to time seem reasonable, but can be challenging to verify on the ground.
>
If nonsense is mixed with potentially valid edits and user is not responding then
full scale reverts are perfectly fine.

> I'm actually wondering about the causes of such bad tags, is Maps.Me using preset 
> names which are difficult to associate to actual tags?
>
maps.me is quite confusing/unclear in describing what is actually edited, how OSM
works and users can add only add points from a limited preset.

That is why so many things are added as tourism=attraction (it is also the first
on the list)

>  Should it be mandatory for OSM editors to show OSM notifications?
>
Maybe, at least strongly encouraged.

> It seems also Maps.Me itself is difficult to contact!! > https://github.com/mapsme/omim/issues/13951
>
Their issue tracker is basically write only and they basically ignore bug reports,
especially in recent years.

See https://github.com/mapsme/omim/issues/created_by/matkoniecz

See also at https://github.com/mapsme/omim/issues how many issues of all reported
are open (2/3 ratio is typical for abandoned or completely dysfunctional projects).

In fact, real issue tracker used by developers is private (at least it was some time ago
when I still tried to report bugs and expected that there is a real chance of a fix).
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