Maybe we want different policies for different areas and different kinds of data.
For example once all the roads are mapped we freeze the roads, but we allow free changing of street names until they reach a freeze point. Here in Korea I just want data and the more the better. In downtown London I would assume all the roads can be frozen except for major construction. On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 4:40 AM, Russ <[email protected]> wrote: > Frederik Ramm wrote: > > Oh yeah, and let's also get their addresses and hang them! I am amazed > > at how much hostility this Liam123 is able to provoke. > > I'm not. I think it's similar to the way people react to virus writers > after their computer is infected. I've heard plenty of people suggest > that they should get all sorts of severe punishments, up to and > including hanging. I'd guess it's frustration at the sheer mindlessness > of the attacks. > > > We must improve our means to detect and deal with vandalism, not circle > > the wagons and make participation more difficult for the > 99% of > > well-meaning users just because there's < 1% of killjoys. That would be > > the worst thing we could do. > > I agree. I'd like to see a situation where someone can see something is > wrong (their road name is spelled wrong, say) and they can fix it, > easily. I haven't made major changes in Wikipedia, but I've made plenty > of small changes, fixing typos and things, and I did it because it was > drop-dead simple. I've got an account, but I didn't even bother logging > in to make most of those changes, because it wasn't worth the hassle. A > few fixed typos can make an article significantly more readable. In our > case, if a town has been mapped using Yahoo, we may not have road names, > but if locals can log in and each fill in a few names, the map becomes > much better. > > Russ > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > -- Jeffrey John Martin [email protected]
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