This can be where having the OSMUK organisation comes in useful. It gives a focal point to discuss organisation to organisation. We will continue to open a channel of communication.
Personally, I'm excited that Amazon are both users of, and contributing back to OSM. As long as they behave as a good citizen. - Jez On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 10:29 Gareth L, <o...@live.co.uk> wrote: > 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> 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>: > > > 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" 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 > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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