[OSM-talk] it's not a fake, but "it's complicated" - fake building for several shops inside one building

[Andy Townsend]

On 05/02/2020 20:06, marc marc wrote:
> nice to highlight the issue.
> but why not fixing it ?

part of the reason for that was described a decade ago by Andy Allan:

https://blog.gravitystorm.co.uk/2009/11/10/the-pottery-club/

That was talking about imports, but "poor commercial mapping in the hope 
that the community will tidy it up" causes the same problem.

Commercial mappers may be paid not for quality, but for quantity, and 
the sheer number of individual mappers can overwhelm local mappers' 
attempts to check their edits.  See for example this list: 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Grab#Grab_Data_Team . Some of the 
problems that that led to can be seen at 
https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=64075 , also in that 
forum see https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=67707 for 
comments relevant to the edits in Panama too.  "Having lots of paid 
mappers" doesn't necessarily mean "will ignore local suggestions" - I 
can think of one very large group (perhaps the largest) who have been 
very responsive.

This potential asymmetry was one of the things that lead to the 
Organised Editing Guidelines being created: 
https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Organised_Editing_Guidelines , and 
the list at 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Organised_Editing/Activities .  Some 
organisations have been very open and responsive about what they were 
trying to do - generally these are the entries in the "Activities" table 
with lots of information.  Some have been, how shall I put it, "less 
forthcoming" and had to be asked by the DWG to create an entry in that 
table at all.

Best Regards,

Andy (from the DWG)