Reminds me of what Mapdust failed at.
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 7:10 AM, Matthijs Melissen <i...@matthijsmelissen.nl > wrote: > I see a lot of comments like this. The underlying problem seems to be > that it is not clear whether notes are meant for armchair mappers, or > for surveyors in the field. > > I think both types of notes are useful: that way the notes can serve > as a two-way communication between mappers in the field (for example > novices who don't know how to edit the map themselves) and armchair > mappers (who might want to communicate with mappers in the field if > they are unable to do a field check themselves at that moment). > > So the solution might be very simple: make two types of notes, 'desk' > notes and 'field' notes. The desk notes can be handled by armchair > mappers. The field notes need a check in the field. Notes created by > anonymous users should be desk notes by default, and if information is > missing, the armchair mapper should be able to turn it into a field > note. > > The notes JB refers seem to be field-type notes. I think they are > useful, and I think it's not helpful if armchair mappers try to close > all of them without doing a survey. > > Anyone think a split in field and desk notes is a good idea? > Implementation of this should be easy. > > -- Matthijs > > On 10 August 2014 11:50, JB <jb...@mailoo.org> wrote: > > Hello, > > I think I will reopen the debate here, by asking a simple question: how > many > > of those saying "hey, let this note open, it does no harm to anybody" > have > > actually browsed a country for its opened notes and tried to close them? > How > > many have done the same with openstreetbugs during its last year of life? > > If you have not, let me tell you, loud and clear: the note database will > > become unusable soon. When you browse 10 notes and are forced to leave 9 > > open because it does provide no clean information, you just stop trying. > > That is why during OSB close up, I found so many notes of that kind > > (continue the path, this is wrong, this does not exist, etc.), that where > > just not clear enough, or where just too old (the correction had been > done > > without OSB), and most of them where more than 2 years old. And this is > why > > OSB was a mess in the end. > > I have tried to keep the DB clean in France, am still trying by beeing > less > > narrow-minded, but I just see its quality decreasing every day. > > So I do not have the exact number, but adding some 10s of little valued > > notes every week saying "this speed limit may be wrong", some of them > added > > by error (not along a highway) does not seem an improvement to the notes > DB > > to me. > > JB. > > > > > > Le 10/08/2014 09:42, Martin Koppenhoefer a écrit : > > > >> > >>> Il giorno 09/ago/2014, alle ore 13:56, Norbert Wenzel > >>> <norbert.wenzel.li...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > >>> > >>> just seeing these notes along a > >>> motorway every few kilometers. And since these messages don't tell what > >>> the actual speed limit should be and where it starts it gets really > >>> annoying to close all these automatically generated notes. > >> > >> > >> why are you closing them, if you can't solve the issue? I would keep > them > >> open, if you are not sure that the limit is correct in OSM > >> > >> cheers, > >> Martin > >> _______________________________________________ > >> talk mailing list > >> talk@openstreetmap.org > >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > talk mailing list > > talk@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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