On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 12:44 AM, Andy Townsend <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello Andy! Thank you for an elaborated reply. > The first thing that I'd mention is that OSM is really more of a "platform" > than a "project" - lots of things work with it, and many of the things that > work with OSM data arenn't joined to other things that work with OSM data > (you've probably already noticed this from reading [2] below). So there > isn't really a "central OSM project to detect vandalism", there are lots of > people using lots of tools to detect anomalies in the OSM data (and fix > them). Okay. Found some at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Detect_Vandalism#Tools. I guess this is what you referred to as 'tools'. > The second thing is that personally I have a bit of a problem with the word > "vandalism" to describe what most of these tools do, since most of the data > problems that people looking for data anomalies find aren't really vandalism > at all but mistakes of one form or another (for example, only today someone > noticed that a particular building had been uploaded 26 times by accident). > There are exceptions (politically motivated renamings is an example of a > problem that OSM's Data Working Group[4] deals with), but actual vandalism > is thankfully rare. Okay, so not considering vandalism alone and taking in account other anomalies that occur when users edit and update maps, I would shift my focus to anomaly detection. <snip> > > What I'd also do is try and get a feel for adding data to OSM yourself - try > and map things in your local area, if you haven't already. That way you'll > understand what people updating OpenStreetMap are trying to do, and it'll > help you to "define the problem" above. I will add data to OSM and see how things work for a clearer picture. I would like to know the progress of OSM Anomaly Detection project. I understand it is to detect anomalies in the OSM data. In one email (back in 2012), I read that it has been abandoned. But it came up again in 2015 (GSoC). After knowing the current status, I would like to start working on this project. How should I proceed? -- Kamalpreet Kaur Grewal Blog: http://kamalpreetgrewal.com/ _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
