I'm guilty of leaving some abandoned notes! I got the notifications when they were cleaned up recently.
I mostly left the notes because I was using StreetComplete, and wanted to capture data that StreetComplete couldn't capture. I intended to come back and resolve the notes, but clearly forgot! However, I did double check some of the recently closed notes, and at least one had been closed without incorporating the information (postbox collection time) into the map. I took the opportunity to belatedly add this. Regards, David Wales On 7 March 2022 10:31:08 am AEDT, stevea <stevea...@softworkers.com> wrote: >On Mar 2, 2022, at 1:18 AM, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Have they simply forgotten that they posted them, so a reminder would og >> their memory; or as suggested, do they want somebody else to do the actual >> mapping work for them? > >Let's not forget that a Note is often added by a "lesser experienced" mapper >(or maybe not even a mapper at all, I think there might be methods for >non-Contributors to add a Note, like through certain apps...please correct me >if I'm wrong). They add a Note because it is "better than leaving a noticed >error," but they can't (or won't) fix it themselves. So, YES, they DO want >somebody else to do the actual mapping work for them. There is nothing wrong >with this, it is part of why Notes exist, so let's incorporate that knowledge >into why somebody posted a Note in the first place: it isn't so we can >grumble at their "laziness," it is to "request an assist" by a mapper who >comes along later and says "yup, there's a problem here, I know how to fix it, >and they whack away the error into mapping data bliss." (Right there, for >that issue). And, "another one (Note) bites the dust." > >As we Resolve a Note, it's a full round-trip on what is supposed to happen >with them. Even one at a time this is true, but especially when you get >national-scope efforts to fix these (thousands at a time), the quality of our >map data just goes up, up, up. I smile at the thought of it: such feedback >loops are wonderful. > >Congrats on the Weekly Newsletter horn-toot! >_______________________________________________ >Talk-au mailing list >Talk-au@openstreetmap.org >https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
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