I don't know why it should be an invention by Zverik. However, since he is both an OSFM board member and working for MAPS.ME he might show up with a solution.
Cheers, Johan 2016-06-19 20:45 GMT+02:00 Tomas Straupis <tomasstrau...@gmail.com>: > There is one bad convergence on this. > > While I can also observe that in Lithuania in last month there was a > huge increase in mapsme "edits" and 50% of those are straight bullshit > (like adding as an artwork objects like "my crib", "place I fish", > adding cyrillic names to name tag in Lithuania where cyrilic is > totally alien etc.), 30% edits like adding duplicate points and only > ~20% being edits which could be interpreted and after editing begin > useful. Thankfully in Lithuania we employ a mechanism similar to > wikipedias "patrolling" so things like that are fixed pretty quickly. > But still it uses resources which could be used better. > > But this is one another Zveriks "inventions" introducing havoc in > OSM. We had russian automated translation adding to name:ru tags > worldwide "because world of tank needs that". Before that we had > zveriks "idea" of introducing natural=water for everything that is > blue to tagging. Which was made less than a year after he joined OSM > and with hundreds of thousands of objects already marked in a > different way (that idea has failed because even after five years > people still mark objects usual way rather than the new scheme). > > Worst of all Zverik did not engage in any discussion about > aforementioned bad decisions! > > Maybe we should have some guards against such non discussed high > impact "inventions"? And in case of "natural=water for everything > blue" some mechanism to revert such not well thought out "proposals"? > > -- > Tomas > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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