Thanks Frederik. This is a good explanation. Can some of it perhaps be added to the document to make it clearer?
On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 6:22 AM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On 22.11.2017 04:16, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > > Pierre, I suspect the number of QA-tool-driven changes are as big, if > > not much bigger than changes from the organized events and paid editing. > > I agree QA tools should be regulated, but are you sure we want to do it > > in the same document, and significantly increase the scope? > > This is something that was discussed at length while drafting the > policy, and you are certainly right, it *is* a difficult area. > > The spirit of the policy can largely expressed in "responsibility" > terms; the policy, by and large, applies whenever the person being > responsible for an edit is not the person making it. > > Most QA tools still require the user to take responsibility. If the QA > tool says "here's a road that crosses a river without a bridge or ford > or anything, please check on aerial imagery and apply correct tagging" > then the responsibility clearly lies with the user. Even if the QA tool > says "this road is tagged highway=residentail, should it perhaps be > highway=residential instead?" the responsibility still lies with the > user. You could go so far as to say: A QA tool that doesn't require the > user to take responsibility is not a QA tool, it is a distributed > mechanical edit and as such, covered by its own policy already. > > (Of course if I now set up "the great bridge fixing event" where I > invite people to help me fix all these problems in one weekend, and > provide detailed instructions to absolute newcomers on how to fix > bridges, then there might be a point where responsibility shifts to me > and I am now "directing" these people to use the QA tool to fix things.) > > 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 >
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