Thank you Frederik for the clearification, so a Stammtisch as you call it would not be affected by the policy unless there was outside influence(unexperienced mapper that says map this in osm, example: political/voting districts(which is why the policy would be there to tell them that this is not appropriate for osm))
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 7:57 AM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On 20.09.2017 13:17, James wrote: > > Also does organised mapping include groups that hold little mapathons? > > Example a local mapping group from Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal or > > Ottawa decide to say map sidewalks in their city. It's an organised > > event. Would they be included as well? > > > > The terms used in this survey seem a little vague and can be left to > > interpretation. > > It is likely that any policy we come up with later will also leave room > for interpretation and this will be necessary to make it work. > > I think they key issues are choice and responsibility. If you have a > group of experienced mappers getting together and doing something, then > they are not "told by a third party what to map"; they do what they > would otherwise do, just together. They act as individuals vis-a-vis the > community, they feel responsible for their edits, and there's no need to > put up rules. They're no different from a mapping party of old. > > If you have, on the other hand, a group of people who have never mapped > and who "just follow orders" (whether written or spoken), and who when > challenged about their edits would likely shrug and say "I just did what > the lead sidewalk mapping guy said, you'll have to take it up with him", > then that's clearly organised mapping. > > There's a grey area in between, especially since you might have both > types of contributors mixed at an event, but also because you can choose > different words to describe the same event. > > Certainly "organised" doesn't simply mean that someone gets a room an > pizza. They would have to provide instruction and guidance too. > > 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 > -- 外に遊びに行こう！
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