Maybe someone could remind folks about the ...wasn't there a...did I hear about a "test server"? Something like a sandbox?
A -- Alex On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:14 AM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On 14.05.2014 11:09, Jóhannes Birgir Jensson wrote: > > The focus needs to be on the problem at hand, > > "The problem at hand" is currently at a scale that can still be handled > on a case-by-case basis; the reason DWG is thinking about a general > guideline is not that we're trigger happy bureaucrats but that we'd like > everyone to know the rules of play rather than making them up as we go > along, and that we assume that the number of such cases might be on the > rise. > > > which I gather is > > companies hiring people to map things using their own methodology > > incompatible with current OSM tagging guidelines. > > No, that is one potential issue but by far not the only aspect. > > Consider a real-life situation like this: > > * User complains "fictional data is added all over my city!" > * Investigation finds 10 accounts having added fictional data; > * further investigation finds that 10 other accounts have signed up at > the same time from the same network, but have added things that do not > immediately look bad (things that might or might not be factual) > * reaching out to those who edited the most brings zero reply (possibly > because their native language is not English nor anything spoken by > anyone in DWG) > > Even reconstructing the whole situation takes quite a bit of time; and > then we have to decide which bits to revert and which to keep. Is this a > course that was misunderstood, or just organized doodling, or what? How > can we reach the teacher (if any)? > > In this specific instance we decided to revert everything contributed by > the whole group - surely not the optimum outcome for an OSM training > course! > > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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