I would personally prefer it if a certain bit of software said "GPX traces"
or similar for the public traces rather than "survey" when autofilling
sources, but I never remember to raise it in the bug tracker.

On Tue, 10 Mar 2020, 18:09 Volker Schmidt, <vosc...@gmail.com> wrote:

> My personal approach: when I map I routinely use three sources in
> parallel: survey,  GPX track, Mapillary images, satellite photos (picking
> the one with the most up-to -date pictures in the area, and aligning them
> to the Italian PCN2006 pictures, which are by our experience the
> best-aligned pictures available here).
> As a consequence (I am not always consistent, to be honest) I would have
> something like "source=survey; GPX tracks; Mapillary; Esri Images aligned
> with PCN2006"
> But my mapping is often not anything near to armchair mapping, I am using
> the images in addition to the other tools.
> I would not consider the fact that sattellite images are used, on its own
> as an indication that the date need to taken with caution.
>
>
> On Tue, 10 Mar 2020 at 15:54, Sören Reinecke <tilmanreine...@yahoo.de>
> wrote:
>
>> Yes, I thought also about this and planned it to integrate in my concept.
>>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Announcing Daylight Map Distribution
>> From: Joseph Eisenberg
>> To: Sören Reinecke
>> CC: Volker Schmidt ,talk@openstreetmap.org
>>
>>
>> My understanding is that the common way to describe armchair mapping,
>> based on aerial imagery, is to identify the imagery source. So I often
>> write:
>>
>> Changeset Comment: "Added and adjusted streams and rivers near Oksibil
>> with ESRI"
>> Changeset Source: "Esri world imagery"
>>
>> This makes it clear that I used Esri imagery to map the streams and
>> rivers, right?
>>
>> - Joseph Eisenberg
>>
>> On 3/10/20, Sören Reinecke via talk wrote:
>> > Hey
>> >
>> > some ideas about identifying such changes:
>> >
>> >
>> > Example changeset comment where a mapper did armchair mapping:
>> > Data updated, added amenity=restaurant
>> > #armchair
>> >
>> > In addition if the mapper works for a company:
>> > #
>> > e.g. #facebook
>> > #amazon
>> > #microsoft
>> > #apple
>> >
>> > Example changeset comment where a mapper did a survey and added data as
>> > (s)he saw it (from the ground):
>> > #survey
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > This way we can organize our changes and Facebook and other companies
>> and
>> > the community as well know how to validate and can distinguish
>> changesets
>> > from another. I could create a wikipage where we think about this
>> "changeset
>> > governance"
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> >
>> > Sören Reinecke alias Valor Naram
>> >
>> >
>> > -------- Original Message --------
>> > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Announcing Daylight Map Distribution
>> > From: Volker Schmidt
>> > To: talk@openstreetmap.org
>> > CC:
>> >
>> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> Fixing stuff in OSM purely from imagery may not be good.
>> >>>
>> >>> A local mapper who sees something may add it before any satellite
>> imagery
>> >>> has it.
>> >>>
>> >>> If you then 'fix' this back to the satellite imagery you will have
>> >>> committed an error,
>> >>> and that error may dissuade our most important resource from ever
>> making
>> >>> any further changes- the local mapper.
>> >>>
>> >>> Be very careful!
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> I second this last line !
>> >>
>> >> I am observing an influx of mixed-quality remote edits from Amazon
>> >> Logistics in my area.
>> >> I expect this Facebook operation to produce much more changes or
>> potential
>> >> changes (=suspected errors).
>> >> What we need for both cases and similar ones in the future is a way of
>> >> being able to identify such changes, which by their nature will be
>> >> armchair-mapping efforts.
>> >> I do not have a specific proposal, but I would appreciate a tool that
>> >> helps me, as local mapper,  find these edits, and, more importantly we
>> >> need a new approach to organise digesting these massive distributed
>> >> armchair-mapping interventions on OSM data.
>> >> I don't realistically think that banning these activities is good for
>> OSM.
>> >> Not dealing in a systematic way with it at all presents, however, a big
>> >> risk of deteriorating the map for two reasons:
>> >> (1) bad armchair edits by Amazon and Facebook (and others)
>> >> (2) demotivating non-armchair mappers
>> >>
>> >> I repeat I do not have a proposal how to handle that. My main concern
>> is
>> >> that the required work for locally checking even only those edits that
>> >> need checking (I am assuming that at least FB has good algorithms to
>> sort
>> >> out the dead-certain corrections beforehand. I am more sceptical with
>> >> Amazon's changing local access tagging to, essentially, "yes"
>> everywhere
>> >> they have delivered something by delivery van. I came across a good
>> number
>> >> of them, and in most cases they were at least dubious)
>> >>
>> >> Volker
>> >> (Padova, Italy)
>> >
>>
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