Myself (and I believe Andrew Harvey) met with some of the Microsoft Open Maps team in Wellington at 2019 FOSS4G SoTM last month.
I will forward the email trail to the team and ask them to review and get back to the list with a solution. I believe the Microsoft team did try and meet with DNRM when in Brisbane but have not had any feedback on the outcome. Cheers Greg > On 10 Dec 2019, at 18:04, Andy Townsend <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 10/12/2019 23:33, cleary wrote: >> In recent times a proliferation of unnamed roads has appeared on the map >> with edits usually titled "Missing Roads in Queensland" or similar. I have >> communicated with a couple of the people, providing specific instances of >> observed errors, but the problem appears to be continuing and spreading. > > Looking at the history list for Queensland now, it seems to be "Microsoft > Open Maps team". The good news is that each of the first four that I looked > at has been replying to changeset discussion comments; the bad news is that > they have all had to have problems pointed out to them. There are also edits > in (at least) WA and Victoria as well. > > If they're "making the same mistakes repeatedly" then please do raise it with > the DWG ([email protected]) so that we can persuade them not to. > > With regards to "organised editing", > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Microsoft currently links to > https://github.com/Microsoft/Open-Maps (not that there is much detail there). > There should be an entry at > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Organised_Editing/Activities which points > to a wiki page that describes what they are doing, but there is not. > > Best Regards, > > Andy (from the DWG) > > PS just a bit of background about how I got from the report in the previous > email to this info (may be obvious to many people but just in case it isn't) > > The OSM history viewer > https://www.openstreetmap.org/history#map=6/-24.336/148.920 shows recent > additions in southern Queensland. There's low enough volume here that the > "Adding missing roads in Queensland" changesets stand out. Click through > from there to one of the mappers shows a description of "Member of Microsoft > Open Maps editorial team". Click through from there to "edits" and then to > one of their changesets; click "Changeset XML" shows something like > https://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/changeset/78222324 (that's one of mine, > actually). Copy the "uid" value and use it at the end of a URL for one of > Pascal Neis' services gives > http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussion-comments?uid=61942 , which > shows all the comments that users have left on their changesets - it's useful > to see what other people are saying and whether they are replying, > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
