On 1 November 2014 13:52, SomeoneElse <[email protected]> wrote: > It's not his fault if an armchair mapper appears to engage editor before > brain and applies changes suggested by notes. In order to try and avoid > people being overcome by temptation, I very often** say "needs survey" in > the text of the note. To be fair to armchair mappers, they may be new to > the project and may not even be familar with the _concept_ of surveying, and > until someone tells them that actually "going out to have a look at > something" is the best way of finding out what's actually there now, they > won't necessarily be aware of the issues (redevelopment, misleading and > offset imagery, etc.) that people who've been mapping for years take for > granted.
I in fact even proposed incorporating a system that makes this explicit in the notes API: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2014-August/070423.html Unfortunately, my suggestion in that thread didn't gain traction. -- Matthijs _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
