On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us>wrote:
> > On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Richard Welty <rwe...@averillpark.net>wrote: > >> ok, i found "report a problem" on the map view for housing units >> in an area. i'll have to go find a map problem and report it via the >> GUI so i can see the full cycle. >> > > I only found two notes for the Greater Seattle area. (Lucky me?) > One anonymous reported a business name. The other looked like a mapper that > was just saying that the tiger road data was sucky. (it was.) It would be > nice to have the note say the source, i.e. craigslist, osm, routing > program. That might give more clues to the problem. Plus it would give us > data if we decided that the reports are useless and needed to modify the > API. > Well as I said all craigslist notes will start with the words "bounds" and a coordinate pair. But yes the thought had occurred to me that a created_by tag like we have on changesets might actually be useful for notes, especially when being created by 3rd party sites like craigslist. I brought the idea up in #osm-dev and it didn't seem to get a good reception but I may try again now that someone is actually using the feature externally. Toby
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