[OSM-talk] Metrics

[John Whelan]

Perhaps we need a set of best practices for the metrics to pay mappers?

Thoughts?

Thanks John

Mikel Maron wrote on 10/18/2021 9:02 AM:
> I think there are incorrect assumptions in this discussion.
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> It is true that paid mapping teams have specific goals. However it is not the case, from my experience at least, that number of edits corresponds with the amount someone is paid, or how their performance is evaluated strictly in terms of quantity rather than quality.
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> Perhaps there are some editing teams that operate in this way. But it can not be said of all or even most, that individuals are evaluated by volume.
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> Metrics on the overall quality of edits by paid teams is not known within the OSM community. We have examples of problems raised on this thread, and in other discussions. But that does not measure the overall trends. What percentage of paid edits are good vs bad quality? What is the percentage in general of OSM? It would be good to have actual numbers.
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> For now, in specific instances, it is best to communicate with the mapper and team to address a problem, rather than generalize to all teams.
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> -Mikel
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> * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
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> On Friday, October 15, 2021, 08:27:52 PM EDT, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Do I get the impression that companies are measuring the work of their employees by the length of highways they have touched?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Thoughts?
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> Thanks John
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