On 15 May 2014 01:03, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote:
> If you're in the HOT business then you might immediately see how this
> could apply to some of your projects and might make life harder. When I
> read the proposal, I think of the countless man-hours (and frustration
> and desperation and heated tempers) involved when mappers on the German
> forum once again find a strange edit pattern and over the course of days
> and hundreds of messages the truth slowly emerges.
>
> There's nothing punitive here; there's an attempt to make life easier
> for everyone. It is not about regulating anything - I don't think Paul
> said anything about anyone enforcing mapping rules or whatever - it is
> just about transparency and disclosure.
>
> If someone teaches OSM to a group of people and instructs them to set up
> an account - does it really make matters worse if you ask them to write
> one sentence on their profile page ("I am Joe Smith and I am learning
> OSM in Mikel's OSM for Dummies course")? Would this not be good practice
> already, even if not expressly written anywhere?The case of existing users mapping under the direction of others, or users switching between their own mapping and being directed by someone are probably relatively rare. So the main case being new users coming to OSM as part of a directed group, osm can maybe borrow one or two mechanisms used on other websites: * a field in the signup form where they can type in or select an option about how the arrived in OSM, whose value may only be retrievable by the DWG, * sign-up links with an embedded referer that a workshop teacher can create and mail to students, or if it is possible to implement sufficiently short links then even write them on the blackboard. Cheers _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
