Re: [Talk-ca] OpenStreetMap at the Crossroads – The Map Room

+1 From: Adam Martin [mailto:s.adam.mar...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 19 August, 2016 12:21 To: Stewart C. Russell Cc: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] OpenStreetMap at the Crossroads – The Map Room Wait! You mean a robot ... Made a mistake!!?? Say it ain't so! Sarcasm aside

Re: [Talk-ca] OpenStreetMap at the Crossroads – The Map Room

Wait! You mean a robot ... Made a mistake!!?? Say it ain't so! Sarcasm aside, it's not surprising. The article speaks so highly of the robots and the crisis peeps over the crafters and the arm chair people. But it has been my experience that unless the importer is skilled and regularly consults

Re: [Talk-ca] OpenStreetMap at the Crossroads – The Map Room

This week's weeklyOSM has a bit about an over-zealous robot from Facebook: Imports * The Data Working Group (DWG) has reverted Facebook’s undiscussed import of poor quality autorecognized

Re: [Talk-ca] OpenStreetMap at the Crossroads – The Map Room

On 8/17/2016 3:44 PM, Laura O'Grady wrote: I recently exchanged messages via OSM with a "robot mapper" who did a bunch of imports in my areas. I asked this person some questions about their edits, pointed out some errors and invited them to present their work at a local OSM meeting. After a

Re: [Talk-ca] OpenStreetMap at the Crossroads – The Map Room

There are guidelines on imports and change sets can be deleted if they aren't followed but if you leave it too long it gets messy as others add to the map. Cheerio John On 17 August 2016 at 18:44, Laura O'Grady wrote: > Interesting post [1] following up on Michal

[Talk-ca] OpenStreetMap at the Crossroads – The Map Room

Interesting post [1] following up on Michal Migurski's [2] comments, "openstreetmap: robots, crisis, and craft mappers", which were based on his thoughts after attending SOTM Seattle. It's basically a treatise categorizing mappers and (inadvertently) creating a hierarchy of value or importance.