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

[Brian M. Sperlongano]

I downloaded and made a test edit (adding an address to a local POI) with
maps.me just now to understand how it works.  It does at least make you log
in to OSM.  I entered in a comment on the change, however, I note that
maps.me overwrote my user-entered comment with a generic comment in the
changeset.

On Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 10:27 AM Stephan Knauss <osm at stephans-server.de>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On 12.11.2020 10:55, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
> > Is it just me or are Maps.me Openstreetmap contributors unaware of
> > Openstreetmap messages ? Does anyone here have seen Maps.me
> > Openstreetmap contributors answer to Openstreetmap messages ?
>
> I share your experience. Typical maps.me edits are of low quality and
> frequently show a misuse of tags, certainly not following to our
> community standards.
>
> I have a very low response rate on comments. Probaly one out of hundred
> responds. And I have not seen them going back to fix their edits ever.
>
> I think OSM API should block edits until email address is confirmed.
> And probably re-check the response to emails once a year or switch the
> account into read-only mode.
> Participating in changeset discussions or using osm messaging could
> reset that counter as well.
>
> Stephan
>
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