I've contacted Maps.me about this issue as we are cleaning up where people are adding English and Chinese names to the name field in Iceland. I've suggested they have 3 name fields - name, name:en and a name:?? which is chosen by user in preferences (at install). They have acknowledged it but made no promises on how they will handle it. This app is giving us an added editor manpower but we might need to help them to make the tool more useful - with more and clearer presets being one issue.
-------- Upphafleg skilaboð -------- Frá: Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> Dagsetning: 17/06/2016 15:52 (GMT+00:00) Til: osm <talk@openstreetmap.org> Efni: [OSM-talk] MAPS.ME edits - partly sub-standard Apparently Maps.me, the most popular open map app for mobile, has gained some editing functions recently. While this is great news (millions of new mappers), it also bears some potential for trouble, as these new mappers often don't seem to be familiar with OSM tagging. In the past weeks there have been several complaints on the Italian mailing list (leading to reverts), and I am sure, elsewhere you will find similar issues. One example: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/40094970 The mapper added chinese names right into the name tag, but as this is a place in Italy, these should rather be in Italian. Also the changeset comment seems to be autogenerated, what is not the worst of all possibilities, but it also isn't the best (there's no gain in information as to WHY an edit was performed, it contains only information WHAT was done, something you already see by looking at the changeset itself). See also here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_changeset_comments As it happens, I'm a maps.me user as well and have had a look at the new function. Maybe I haven't found it, but there are only very few informations (tags) from OSM on the actual objects (naturally, because they have to save on precious device space), and the level of zoom is limited (e.g. I couldn't zoom in to see all housenumbers, some of them have been omitted and this will inevitably lead to lots of newly created duplicates). From my point of view, even as an experienced OSM mapper, it is currently almost impossible to make meaningful edits (in well mapped areas) with this app, because of the missing data. Cheers, Martin
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