On 30/07/2014, Pieren <pier...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 12:34 AM, Paul Norman <penor...@mac.com> wrote: > >> I'd consider that a useful note, and certainly within the scope of what >> notes were intended for. > > ?! > "useful" in what ? That the street names are missing in a town ? Then > create a note for missing addresses, shops, pharmacies, etc. Such > notes do not help contributors because it is so obvious and does not > bring any information or error report helping the others.
Especially for missing street names, where we have plenty of good tools to find unnamed highways worldwide. Any "FOO needs fixing here" note that just repeats what QA tools automatically point out is just wasting contributors' time. It's excusable if comming from an OSM newbie, but contributors ought to know better. There are (as always) exceptions. One I know of is a case of mapper-commenter collaboration in Northern Ireland where the mapper opened many notes of the type "what is this called ?" and a local commenter would answer, then the mapper would edit the map and close the notes. It's only advisable if you know a specific someone will read and answer your notes. I'd say notes as todo lists are ok in some circumstances, such as reminding about a recent/future construction end date, or as a quick survey note-taking tool (which you'll close youself asap). I'm not a big fan of either, but they are reasonable. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
