Re: [OSM-talk] How to handle Maps.Me garbage?

2016-06-22 Thread Andrew Hain
Andy Townsend gmail.com> writes: > Because of the language difference I suspect that the chance of a reply > from this MAPS.ME user will be less than from others (unless you try an > address them in Korean - but that really isn't difficult these days with > machine translation). > > I've

Re: [OSM-talk] How to handle Maps.Me garbage?

2016-06-22 Thread Philip Barnes
On Wed Jun 22 14:52:40 2016 GMT+0100, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2016-06-22 15:13 GMT+02:00 Michael Reichert : > > > I decided not to write a changeset comment because it seems to me to > > be a waste of time to comment a Maps.Me user's changeset. > > > > > It is also a way

Re: [OSM-talk] How to handle Maps.Me garbage?

2016-06-22 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2016-06-22 15:16 GMT+02:00 Michael Reichert : > If someone wants to import some low-/mixed quality stuff into OSM and > suggest to add fixme=* to lots of objects, we usually refuse to give the > import "permission" because such data usually will not be fixed. That's > why I think

Re: [OSM-talk] How to handle Maps.Me garbage?

2016-06-22 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2016-06-22 15:13 GMT+02:00 Michael Reichert : > I decided not to write a changeset comment because it seems to me to > be a waste of time to comment a Maps.Me user's changeset. > It is also a way to document for your fellow mappers what you have found out, not just a way to

Re: [OSM-talk] How to handle Maps.Me garbage?

2016-06-22 Thread Andy Townsend
On 22/06/2016 14:13, Michael Reichert wrote: I decided not to write a changeset comment because it seems to me to be a waste of time to comment a Maps.Me user's changeset. (There less frequently respond to comments than iD users) Because of the language difference I suspect that the chance of

Re: [OSM-talk] How to handle Maps.Me garbage?

2016-06-22 Thread Max
just checked a few of the edits and deleted some nodes. Lee Jin-Jeong did add a couple of things that were already there and in the case of an hostel several times. In Kiev the user added a Korean church with the name "Kiev Korean Unified Church" in Korean. The location is a bit curious though in

Re: [OSM-talk] How to handle Maps.Me garbage?

2016-06-22 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Martin, Am 22.06.2016 um 15:04 schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer: > I would add fixme tags and decide on an individual basis how to deal with > it. Still, despite all lamentation, I admit that the amount of surveyed > addressing information we are getting this way is great (precision to be >

Re: [OSM-talk] How to handle Maps.Me garbage?

2016-06-22 Thread Michael Reichert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Joost, Am 22.06.2016 um 15:09 schrieb joost schouppe: > Did you miss the ongoing thread on this subject? [1] If read the thread but was not able to draw a conclusion regarding my question. > You should of course contact the mapper with the

Re: [OSM-talk] How to handle Maps.Me garbage?

2016-06-22 Thread joost schouppe
Did you miss the ongoing thread on this subject? [1] Max even said something about Korean names there too, though this is about the reversed situation [2]. I have no ideas if the names in Korean in your case are transliterations of the local name. You should of course contact the mapper with the

Re: [OSM-talk] How to handle Maps.Me garbage?

2016-06-22 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2016-06-22 14:26 GMT+02:00 Michael Reichert : > Shall I either revert his changesets in total or shall I change > (mechanically/without local knowledge) name=* to name:ko=*? > In the instances of similar cases I have checked, it was mostly improbable that the features would

Re: [OSM-talk] How to handle Maps.Me garbage?

2016-06-22 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Wednesday, June 22, 2016, Michael Reichert wrote: > by browsing the map, I have discovered the edits of user 이진영 > (Google Translator says that this is a Korean name). He added some > POIs in serveral European countries and entered the Korean name into > name=*. > >

[OSM-talk] How to handle Maps.Me garbage?

2016-06-22 Thread Michael Reichert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, by browsing the map, I have discovered the edits of user 이진영 (Google Translator says that this is a Korean name). He added some POIs in serveral European countries and entered the Korean name into name=*.