Re: [OSM-talk] "NRCS basic OSM training" - low quality changesets in Nepal

2017-06-23 Thread joost schouppe
2017-06-22 17:49 GMT+02:00 Ben Discoe : > Bizarrely, they went ahead and reverted my quality-improvement edits, > which I suppose means that next time I'll need to do more research, > discussion and education before committing this type of cleanup, to > prevent this sort of pointless, inefficient

Re: [OSM-talk] "NRCS basic OSM training" - low quality changesets in Nepal

2017-06-22 Thread Warin
On 23-Jun-17 12:49 PM, Marc Gemis wrote: So Warin's proposal should use +, not dot. With plus you can append anything, with dot the other characters should remain the same. m Yep. + not dot. I just tried it .. the+ works If you use thunderbird for your email, the + still comes in to your i

Re: [OSM-talk] "NRCS basic OSM training" - low quality changesets in Nepal

2017-06-22 Thread Marc Gemis
So Warin's proposal should use +, not dot. With plus you can append anything, with dot the other characters should remain the same. m Op 23 jun. 2017 00:54 schreef "Éric Gillet" : 2017-06-23 0:34 GMT+02:00 Nicolás Alvarez : > > Ben .. you could try, say, bdiscoe@gmail.com and > bdiscoe.old.

Re: [OSM-talk] "NRCS basic OSM training" - low quality changesets in Nepal

2017-06-22 Thread Éric Gillet
2017-06-23 0:34 GMT+02:00 Nicolás Alvarez : > > Ben .. you could try, say, bdiscoe@gmail.com and > bdiscoe.old...@gmail.com - they should both end up in you gmail account. > > Are you saying that if anyone emails nicolas.whate...@gmail.com it will > reach me? That... doesn't sound right. > Pl

Re: [OSM-talk] "NRCS basic OSM training" - low quality changesets in Nepal

2017-06-22 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
> El 22 jun 2017, a las 19:27, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> escribió: > >> On 23-Jun-17 02:45 AM, Christoph Hormann wrote: >>> On Thursday 22 June 2017, Ben Discoe wrote: >>> >>> BTW, the likely reason I didn't see changeset comments is that my >>> active OSM account ("bdiscoe") is registered t

Re: [OSM-talk] "NRCS basic OSM training" - low quality changesets in Nepal

2017-06-22 Thread Warin
On 23-Jun-17 02:45 AM, Christoph Hormann wrote: On Thursday 22 June 2017, Ben Discoe wrote: BTW, the likely reason I didn't see changeset comments is that my active OSM account ("bdiscoe") is registered to an old, hard-to-reach email address (b...@vterrain.org), and (so far) OSM won't let me ch

Re: [OSM-talk] "NRCS basic OSM training" - low quality changesets in Nepal

2017-06-22 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Thursday 22 June 2017, Ben Discoe wrote: > > I haven't seen those changeset comments, but I did get a message from > a "marek kleciak" claiming that my cleanup operations were > "destroying work of other mappers." I carefully explained to him all > about the edits I performed (they are semi-man

Re: [OSM-talk] "NRCS basic OSM training" - low quality changesets in Nepal

2017-06-22 Thread Ben Discoe
> The changeset comment quoted by Andy is on some sort of automated edits > simplifying forests by user bdiscoe. I haven't seen those changeset comments, but I did get a message from a "marek kleciak" claiming that my cleanup operations were "destroying work of other mappers." I carefully explain

Re: [OSM-talk] "NRCS basic OSM training" - low quality changesets in Nepal

2017-06-22 Thread Dan Joseph
Hi Frederik, If someone lives in a place and starts learning how to use OSM to map their surroundings they don't count as part of the "community"? If their first edits aren't perfect then they don't pass your test and can't join the OSM community? Constrained by time and resources (as everything

Re: [OSM-talk] "NRCS basic OSM training" - low quality changesets in Nepal

2017-06-22 Thread Gaurav Thapa
Hi all, Thank you Robert for your response. I work at KLL and we have identified a person at Nepal Red Cross Society (NRCS). We will inform them of these errors and get back to the larger group. The OSM Nepal community is more active on facebook. You can reach us here to have a more immediate resp

Re: [OSM-talk] "NRCS basic OSM training" - low quality changesets in Nepal

2017-06-22 Thread Robert Banick
Hi all, I live in Nepal, contribute to the local map and consider myself part of the local OSM community. I would certainly be exasperated if my edits got mangled by a training but recognize it’s all part of the learning curve. I would trade a couple months of cleaning bad edits for a significantl

Re: [OSM-talk] "NRCS basic OSM training" - low quality changesets in Nepal

2017-06-21 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 21.06.2017 23:48, Dan Joseph wrote: > NRCS stands for Nepal Red Cross Society, so the people behind the edits > are part of the local community. The word "community" is used in a lot of different ways in OSM. When I speak of "the local community" I ususally mean "the OSM mappers who live t

Re: [OSM-talk] "NRCS basic OSM training" - low quality changesets in Nepal

2017-06-21 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 21 June 2017 at 22:48, Dan Joseph wrote: > NRCS stands for Nepal Red Cross Society, so the people behind the edits are > part of the local community. The mappers would be local volunteers and may > not be comfortable responding to changeset comments that are written in > English Thank you, Da

Re: [OSM-talk] "NRCS basic OSM training" - low quality changesets in Nepal

2017-06-21 Thread Pierre Béland
? They are quite experienced and could help on this.    Pierre De : Dan Joseph À : talk@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : mercredi 21 juin 2017 17h51 Objet : Re: [OSM-talk] "NRCS basic OSM training" - low quality changesets in Nepal Hi,NRCS stands for Nepal Red Cross Socie

Re: [OSM-talk] "NRCS basic OSM training" - low quality changesets in Nepal

2017-06-21 Thread Dan Joseph
------------------- >> *From:* Michał Brzozowski >> *Sent:* 18 June 2017 21:32:16 >> *To:* talk@openstreetmap.org >> *Subject:* [OSM-talk] "NRCS basic OSM training" - low quality changesets >> in Nepal >> There

Re: [OSM-talk] "NRCS basic OSM training" - low quality changesets in Nepal

2017-06-21 Thread Jan Michel
lk@openstreetmap.org *Subject:* [OSM-talk] "NRCS basic OSM training" - low quality changesets in Nepal There has been a number of users making very low quality edits (lowercase names, wrong tags. geometry problems among others) in Nepal. They all use this mysterious changeset description

Re: [OSM-talk] "NRCS basic OSM training" - low quality changesets in Nepal

2017-06-18 Thread Andy Townsend
On 18/06/2017 22:42, Andrew Hain wrote: Have you tried politely making changeset comments asking this? (just in case anyone's unaware that it exists) http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussions?c=Nepal#8/27.529/86.310 shows this week's changeset discussion comments centred on Nepal. Best

Re: [OSM-talk] "NRCS basic OSM training" - low quality changesets in Nepal

2017-06-18 Thread Andrew Hain
Have you tried politely making changeset comments asking this? -- Andrew From: Michał Brzozowski Sent: 18 June 2017 21:32:16 To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: [OSM-talk] "NRCS basic OSM training" - low quality changesets in Nepal There has been a

[OSM-talk] "NRCS basic OSM training" - low quality changesets in Nepal

2017-06-18 Thread Michał Brzozowski
There has been a number of users making very low quality edits (lowercase names, wrong tags. geometry problems among others) in Nepal. They all use this mysterious changeset description: "NRCS basic OSM training" If this is training, then the instructor clearly has no OSM expertise required. The ma