[OSM-talk] Metrics

[john whelan]

At the moment I've noticed what I think is a "commercial" or paid mapper
converting highway=residential to highway=path on a number of African
villages.  There is nothing especially wrong with this but previously I
noticed another paid mapper retagging highways which has got me thinking.

Do I get the impression that companies are measuring the work of their
employees by the length of highways they have touched?

Is there a way to say this mapper has added xyz kilometres of highway?  If
there was it might prevent the temptation to game the system by changing a
few tags.

The mapper changed tags on a highway that was next to two clusters of
buildings, houses?  My personal opinion is their time would have been
better spent adding the hamlets or villages and adding connecting highways
to them.

The country concerned is missing a thousand or so settlements at a
conservative guess and many settlements have no highways connecting them
hence the thought that they could be more productively employed if we had
better metrics.

Thoughts?

Thanks John
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