Hello, Amazon are indeed adding service roads at quite a pace, although with gps from their drivers and aerial imagery to support. As noted here https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2019-July/023252.html they are responding and soliciting to community feedback on their tagging, which I consider quite responsible.
Driveways are a refinement of highway=service, so tagging it as highway service strikes me as a decent start to incrementing the detail of the map. So far I’ve only seen them add missing ways rather than alter existing ones, or revert some tagging they did on the ways they created following community feedback. I agree with you, Andy, that their user profile boilerplate messages could be more helpful. An email address isn’t the most transparent way of seeing what concerns are being raised. Gareth On 29 Jul 2019, at 09:43, Dan S <danstowell+...@gmail.com<mailto:danstowell+...@gmail.com>> wrote: "stinks of armchair mapping" - that sounds rather derogatory. My understanding is that these are organised edits informed in significant part by Amazon's own GPS logs from their delivery staff. (Am I misunderstanding?) If so, referring to it as "armchair" is irrelevant; either way, referring to it as "stinks" is just not very nice. If they should be adding driveway tags then how about emailing their nominated contact address and teaching them the good ways? Best Dan Op ma 29 jul. 2019 om 09:37 schreef Andy Robinson <ajrli...@gmail.com<mailto:ajrli...@gmail.com>>: I've just looked at a number of Amazon Logistics in my local area. A lot of service roads are getting added which on face value look perhaps to be driveways but that tag hasn't been added. Just stinks of armchair mapping. The users (three I spotted off the bat) all have the following "I work for Amazon Logistics. At Amazon Logistics, we've been utilizing OSM in some cases related to our delivery programs. In connection with those delivery programs, we have collected information that we think is valuable to the OSM community such as names and info about new roads that are not currently in the map today, new data on turn restrictions, and road connectivity, to name a few. When we hear feedback, we've been editing to provide that information for the benefit of the entire OSM user community. If you have more questions, please contact osm-edit-escalati...@amazon.com<mailto:osm-edit-escalati...@amazon.com>" in their username profiles but there is no link to what's really going on and what the basis of the edits are. Anyone else have concerns over benefits? Cheers Andy _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org<mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org<mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
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