In my area, AL are adding legitimate data which helps improve the
quality of the OSM database. I believe they make the same amount of
errors as any other contributors, including experienced ones.
Unsure why he thinks OSMF should be keeping an eye on contributors
purely because they're paid.
I doubt Paul, when he started his first *paid* job was an expert at it,
& never made a mistake.
It sounds like Paul's got his knickers in a twist over something other
than poor quality data.
DaveF
On 20/03/2020 23:07, Paul Johnson wrote:
So, you all know at this point that I've been heavily invested in editing
OSM and contributing to my maximum activity, less as a need to help a
charity and more of an obligation to the public to do the most good with
the short time I have on this planet. However, I've had a few events come
up that are more or less killing my ability to keep up.
I'm taking a step back from being the primary editor in the Oklahoma region
until this passes.
3) Amazon Logistics and a revolving door team of one-edit-and-done spam
accounts keeps throwing paid contributions into Oklahoma that are of poorly
aligned, largely fictional and low quality. I'm stuck cleaning up in a
neglected part of North America some particularly low quality edits with
limited resources and little ability to find more. I hope other
contributors can help keep abreast and I hope OSM Foundation can help keep
paid contributors to account. I don't think it's unreasonable to think
that paid mapper should be contributing *far* higher quality data than your
average volunteer first time mapper, and I think OSM needs to have a
serious conversation about minimum qualifications for paid mapping that I
simply don't have the time or energy for at this point. Dealing with this
(and staying abreast extensive OkTrans highway modernization efforts
lately) have been a major part of my editing (and while OkTrans is
unavoidable, Amazon is inexcusable).
2) My truck was stolen last night
<https://social.tulsa.ok.us/@BalooUriza/103855930214022255>, along with the
dashcams I use for Mapillary, essentially making long range surveying
impossible and imperiling my survival since, if for nothing else, I need to
hit Costco for restocking my pantry and storeroom. As such, I had to call
off work and spent most of the day today dealing with the police today.
1) I work in the IT department of a major regional hospital on the front
lines of the COVID-19 response in the US. My vacation at the end of next
month, and my weekends for the next two months, have been cancelled, and
I'm expected to work 8+ hours a day, 7 days a week to help keep things up
and running so the medical staff don't have to think about the computers.
I really hope OSMF and the DWG takes a good, hard and critical look at
dealing with the low quality edits from Amazon and spammers while I deal
with acquiring another (or, best case, my stolen) pickup and dealing with
my professional life.
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