[OSM-talk] "helpful" remote correctional edits (or "please don't correct bank ATMs in the Sahara desert" - was: Re: Planned revert of added surface and tracktype tags without local knowledge in various countries)

[Jóhannes Birgir Jensson]

Incredibly enough surfaces also change, no doubt many of our gravel tracks were correct at the time and have now been paved or bound.

19. júlí 2020 kl. 20:33, skrifaði "Martin Koppenhoefer" <dieterdreist at gmail.com>:

> sent from a phone
> 
>> On 19. Jul 2020, at 14:48, Hauke Stieler <mail at hauke-stieler.de> wrote:
>> 
>> Blind reverts are also pretty bad. In my case, I talked to other people
>> in our community and only reverted some of the edits, which are very
>> unplausible (like "grade4" with "surface=paved" and imagery showing a
>> paved way).
> 
> I also just today corrected some roads which all had the highway=track tag with surface=gravel and
> track type grade2 or 1, but actually some were paved narrow residential/unclassified roads in the
> country side, with speed limits (30), reflectors and guard rails in parts, some were signposted
> private driveways, and some houses, farmyards and b&bs, some were actually tracks. It’s hard to
> tell from the imagery (that there are houses is obviously visible, but the difference between
> gravel and asphalt may be hard to tell), and it was misleading for me, until I came there and
> understood that the information in the area in OpenStreetMap was unreliable (looked like detailed
> tagging but then half of these details were fictional).
> 
> Cheers Martin
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