On 05/02/2020 20:06, marc marc wrote:
nice to highlight the issue.
but why not fixing it ?
part of the reason for that was described a decade ago by Andy Allan:
https://blog.gravitystorm.co.uk/2009/11/10/the-pottery-club/
That was talking about imports, but "poor commercial mapping in the hope
that the community will tidy it up" causes the same problem.
Commercial mappers may be paid not for quality, but for quantity, and
the sheer number of individual mappers can overwhelm local mappers'
attempts to check their edits. See for example this list:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Grab#Grab_Data_Team . Some of the
problems that that led to can be seen at
https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=64075 , also in that
forum see https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=67707 for
comments relevant to the edits in Panama too. "Having lots of paid
mappers" doesn't necessarily mean "will ignore local suggestions" - I
can think of one very large group (perhaps the largest) who have been
very responsive.
This potential asymmetry was one of the things that lead to the
Organised Editing Guidelines being created:
https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Organised_Editing_Guidelines , and
the list at
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Organised_Editing/Activities . Some
organisations have been very open and responsive about what they were
trying to do - generally these are the entries in the "Activities" table
with lots of information. Some have been, how shall I put it, "less
forthcoming" and had to be asked by the DWG to create an entry in that
table at all.
Best Regards,
Andy (from the DWG)
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