Well, I'm not sure a new mapper will have a bad experience in The Netherlands. There hasn't been any signal yet apart from yours. Will editing in Nantes (associatedStreet relations on address nodes) in your opinion create a bad experience for a new mapper?
2014-02-06 Frederik Ramm <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > On 06.02.2014 20:16, Johan C wrote: > > Dear Frederik, I find myself having some difficulty to understand the > > way you are addressing imports. There seem to be two camps now. And, > > while the Dutch import tries to get as many local people as possible > > involved (7 at the moment, and that's still just the number of beta > > testers), you refer to that import as a bad one. > > I have not specifically mentioned "the Dutch import" and frankly I am > not 100% sure what the status of that import is. > > What I am sure about is: > > I have recently been to a city in the Netherlands, I mapped a little, I > saw stacks of house numbers that were difficult to handle and tagged as > coming from an import. That's all, but that is a fact - I wasn't editing > in some beta testing database, I was editing as a guest mapper in OSM, > just like any new mapper would. > > A new mapper signing up and editing in the area where I edited *will* > have a bad experience, there's no doubt about that. In that area where I > edited, a bad import is making things difficult for new mappers - that's > all I said, and that's a fact. It may only be valid for that small area > which by coincidence was your beta test area - but will a new mapper > know "ah, OSM isn't that difficult to edit normally, this is just > because I accidentally landed in an import beta test area"? > > It is a real possibility that someone signs up, tries to edit there, > finds it a horrible experience, quits, and writes a blog entry about how > shit OSM is. And yes, we can then say "wait a moment, this was just our > testing area and it isn't that bad everywhere and we're only just > recruiting more people to get the import right" or whatever but will it > help that guy's impression? > > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" >
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