2016-06-19 22:35 GMT+02:00 Ilya Zverev <i...@zverev.info>: > As for the maps.me, I am glad that foreign names issue is basically the > only one that most people agree on. >
there are lots of different issues, and even if many of them have not yet commented on them, I still believe they do have the potential to harm overall data quality. From the manual reviews I have performed so far, the amount of new issues introduced was far bigger than the useful information that has been added, but I didn't look at enough data to make this representative in any way (of course). Some of the issues that come to mind: 1. stuff put projected to the middle of the road rather than the actual position (common newbie error, possibly because that's how google and others present search results) 2. stuff put without a tag what it is (just a name and a property like tourism=attraction) 3. duplicates added (things that are already there) 4. poor semantic level (very low detail in tagging, in some occassions to a point where it becomes not understandable any more, sometimes mistagged as something vaguely similar) 5. sometimes missplaced objects far off (likely due to bad location data in the device and users not familiar with the area, and not willing to properly orient themselves) I guess it depends very much on the area where you are editing, in a densely mapped, detailed area there is very few you can contribute with a simple editor like maps.me, mostly useful to correct mispellings and changes like things that have gone, while in a poorly mapped area we might get useful contributions by at least something added where before there were only voids. > We are of course aware of it, and either in the coming release, or the one > after it, we will introduce a multilanguage name editor. > this is great news. I suggest you first ask the users, which language they are going to add the name, and then let them add the name (this way they will be less likely modifying the existing name in local language). Cheers, Martin
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