On 3 November 2017 at 17:51, Ilya Zverev <i...@zverev.info> wrote: > First, thanks everyone for checking the import. I've made some improvements > regarding addresses, and I removed the "operator" tag. You can see the > improvements on the same map. I'd like to join Richard in a search for a > review tool, which would allow people from UK to participate.
Maproulette springs to mind. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MapRoulette for those who haven't seen it before. On a more general point, I recently attended SOTM-US and it was noticeable the shift in approach to third-party data that has been happening over there in the last few years. Very few people or companies were discussing imports in the manner of "lets get the data into the right format and then just upload it with a script" and instead the theme is very much how to get data into the hands of mappers and how to develop the right tools so that the local communities can incorporate the data themselves. Facebook were very clear on this. Even ESRI have been working on developing iD so that mappers can use third-party data during their normal workflow, rather than going down the shapefile-and-a-script route. So it's a little disappointing to return home and find that someone is trying to upload some dataset directly to the servers, instead of trying put the data in the hands of mappers to deal with it ourselves. This Shell data appears to be useful, but I don't like the idea of giving everyone only a few days to review and comment before shoving it into the database. Please explore options, like MapRoulette or others, so that the mappers are in control of the process and not the techies. I'm sure if mappers are working through the list as part of a MapRoulette challenge, checking for weirdness and ticking off the ones that are done, we'll all enjoy it more and we'll end up with better results. Even just improving these tags as part of a challenge will lead mappers to reposition the fuel station nodes more accurately, or even add some further details from imagery, or whatnot. In short: Third-party data good, bulk imports bad. Power to the mappers! Thanks, Andy _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb