[OSM-talk] Lithuania fancy tagging rules (was: Re: Andy Townsend is above local community?)

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Jun 6, 2022, 07:07 by tomasstraupis at gmail.com:

> Mateusz copy-pasted some other mapping rules as our "decision"
>
(1) I have not copy pasted anything, I edited this pages to remove
blatantly misleading claim that for example POIs cannot be mapped
without use of GPS device and that aerial imagery cannot be used to map
roads/paths

(2) following three paragraphs are copy-pasted from
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2022-June/087558.html

If Lithuanian community claims that they can ban people from mapping
shops if they do not use high-precision GPS then they are wrong
and such decision is invalid.

Have you claimed to other mappers that they need such specialist
hardware to add a shop? Shops can be added based on existing data,
without any GPS hardware (not even smartphone is needed).

Either this page was outdated or this decision was invalid in the 
first place and based on being unaware how things can be mapped,
based on - for example - already mapped buildings and addresses
and roads, and survey data.

>  Look at error point maps and you will see Lithuania being
> much cleaner.
>
Blindly following QA tools does not mean that map data is better.
If you use THAT as indicator that map data in Lithuania is greater
than elsewhere then you reveal that you are unaware how to judge
map data quality at all.
Raw error count of all QA reports are mostly correlated with amount of
data being present. Limiting to some specific error classes on
specific object types would be needed to have something usable at all
for comparing data quality between various regions.

Also, the best way to achieve low amount of validator warning is
driving out mappers to ensure that new things are not getting mapped.
I suspect that your extreme aggressiveness is directed also at 
local mappers and you are personally responsible for many people
stopping to contribute.

Have you for example commented to anyone that they are not allowed to
map shops because they have not bought GPS receiver?

Also, discontinuous road network classes ARE something reported by QA
tools anyway. So your claims are inconsistent anyway.

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