I think this user ranking principle / ranking discussion is very unhealthy. OSM is not a game with points for every node we shoot ! Common, become an adult and map to give to the world and have a good time yourself. And if you go outside with your GPS you have a free workout too.
Gert -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Stephan Knauss [mailto:o...@stephans-server.de] Verzonden: Thursday, September 08, 2011 10:32 AM Aan: Simon Poole CC: talk@openstreetmap.org Onderwerp: Re: [OSM-talk] user rankings Simon Poole writes: > We naturally already have fairly extensive user rankings, see odbl.de. This is a ranking which counts who was the last one touching an object. As Maurizio already pointed out this is not too meaningful as it says nothing about the quality of edits. If I want to have a higher rank I simply select some big polygon and move it a few centimeters. Or write a script that inserts a new node in the middle of existing nodes of a way. You push up your rank without creating more value. So taking into account other metrics to calculate the merit sounds reasonable. Actually going outside to add street names is with the current metric less valuable than armchair mapping roads from bing. Merit has to take into account the time effort donated to OSM in some way. Stephan _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
