[OSM-talk] QA tool for finding nameless highways that are armchair-fixable

[Andy Townsend]

On 28/11/2022 13:57, Maarten Deen wrote:
> What the user wielding the QA tool does with that is his choice.

Indeed, but as we've seen in lots of places users sometimes blindly 
follow "suggestions" without engaging their brains.

As an example, Osmose contains very clear information that users should 
not blindly obey it (see 
https://osmose.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/#zoom=0&lat=39.9&lon=-74.6 and 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmose ) yet there are still many 
complaints about people using Osmose for "fixing" stuff in OSM that 
isn't actually broken.

I can't really think what the Osmose people (in this example) could do 
to make people NOT blindly make changes in this way, and it's really 
useful to the project to have something suggesting what might (but might 
not) be a problem**.

Perhaps what needs to happen is for people who actually do go outside 
and map stuff to push back more forthrightly and more often, when we 
know that something is wrong, and even when it "just looks a bit iffy".

Best Regards,

Andy

** for the avoidance of any doubt I'm not complaining about Osmose here!