Le dimanche 21 juin 2009 12:49, Richard Fairhurst a écrit : > Frederik Ramm wrote: > > However, we'll have more and more imports like boundaries, seamarks > > and so on, which I like to consider "mutable for people who know > > exactly what they're doing". > > Is this actually a real-world problem right now, or something we think > might possibly one day become one?
It is, In france we are actually importing admin_level=8 boundaries from an "official" source and we have some fears about users modifying it without really understanding why it is so. Our source is however not perfect (projection problems, semi-manual imports,...) and users are encouraged to modify it when they have good reasons to do so. But nothing forbids anyone to do a mistake and cut/move/change nodes/ways incorectly. For now, we are just using some tools to monitor the data and try to spot such erroneous modifications + adding wiki page to explain the import. But we put an important trust on the user. A solution such as the one proposed by Frederik could help, but I do personnaly fear a bit that the editor will one day drop dozen pop-ups repeating "are you sure ? because XXX" ending with a windows-minded user just to repeatidly hit "Yes I am" JOSM dialog box : - You are editing a node out of your bbox, are you sure ? - You are modifying an official imported source, are you sure ? - The source tag is XXX are you sure yours is better ? - The quality of this node is GPS retrieved with a Garmin X, is your GPS at least a Magelan Y ? - You are modifying an extended-multipolygon relation element, are you aware of this wiki page ? - Your changeset need a comment, an empty one might leads to a revert, are you sure ? I know I'm going too far, and I also know that as data amount increase we'll probably need some "quality insurrance monitoring tools", but I'am considering the defaults being "warn and trust" instead of "guilty and revert" PS: Rigth now, I'm using the note tag when I feel the need to give an estimation of the quality of my contribution in the hope that a new user will consider it before making some approximative changes -- sly sylvain letuffe _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
