From experience, I know that such responses are intimidating and put people off mapping. My girlfriend started mapping some areas when I showed her how to do it and immediately somebody sent her an email saying how she should be doing things because he doesn't map it that way (Neither way was official or written down anyway), and in the end she said she didn't like it and felt intimidated and decided not to carry on.
I think people need a playpen where they can try out ideas and map before contributing to the main map (Maybe there already is, I don't know). I think it should also be a requirement that people add a comment upon every commit to avoid such arguments. I'm getting a little tired of seeing constant updates in my area from people who don't add comments on why or what they've changed. Tony On 14 November 2015 at 18:04, Michał Brzozowski <www.ha...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Gerd Petermann > <gpetermann_muenc...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> I think that's quite okay presuming that many users don't speak english > I forgot to mention. My operations with respect to newcomers are > almost solely in Poland. So I write in Polish. > >> and another group simply doesn't like to be watched / corrected > I thought this is what community is about? Reviewing others' work? ;-) > The things I write about are rather obvious mistakes, like: no main > POI tag (amenity, shop, ...), free text in opening_hours, geometry > errors and so on. > > Recently I found out that simple "please fix" or "please respond" (if > edits need clarification) boosts chances for a reply or fixing by the > user. How about we make some tips/guidelines for communications with > newcomers on the Wiki? People could share practices they find most > effective. > > Michał > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
