Hi, On 11/7/19 18:19, Greg Troxel wrote: > My point is that we have a lot of mappers and a set of norms (which are > pretty fuzzy and/or a bit contradictory). We have rules about > mechanical edits (including imports), since they change things in a > large-scale systematic way.
Yes. If you are a programmer and instruct your code to change all A's to B's in OSM then it's a mechanical edit and rules apply (because much can go wrong, aka "with great power comes great responsibility" etc). And if you are a boss and instruct your 5000 employees to change all A's to B's that should be treated similarly. That's why we have the organised editing guidelines: https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Organised_Editing_Guidelines > So I'm not opposed to large-scale paid editing; i just think it needs > some caution and that the guidance to paid mapeprs needs to be > published to the OSM community. The guidelines request that, among other things, "if participants will receive training material or written instructions, a copy of, or link to, these materials" should be published. Generally, if an organisation does not follow the guidelines and this leads to problems, they should be held accountable & their edits are liable to being reverted. Of course one would start with a friendly pointer... Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
