On 11 Oct 2012, at 09:32, Peter Wendorff <wendo...@uni-paderborn.de> wrote:
> Am 11.10.2012 10:20, schrieb Kevin Peat: >> On 10 October 2012 21:22, Richard Weait <rich...@weait.com> wrote: >>> What are the results? >>> ... >>> The most common comment quality is 18. >>> Half of all accounts have comment quality from 13 to 36. >>> Bots usually have comment quality under one. >>> >> Equating changeset comment quality with mapper quality is total BS. >> Descriptive comments are helpful to other mappers but that is all. >> They don't tell you anything about the quality of the changes. >> >> I think that in well mapped areas if your contributions persist over >> time then probably you are a good mapper. If your changesets are >> frequently reverted or your contributions are quickly edited by others >> then probably not. > +1 > But for the "quickly edited by others" part -1: > If these changes refer to different attributes, that's totally fine. > A mapper who maps streets, but isn't interested in the surface tag or width, > another mapper active in the same region is and adds that regularly later, > it's totally fine. > But: Probably it's true that frequent changes of other mappers at existing > tags mapper A added before is a good hint for a bad mapper. You also have to take into account the level of interest in the areas. The areas I work in for example, I might be producing crap, but no one else is interested in mapping here at the moment, so no one will replace it. Bob _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
