It would help to know the concrete incidences - any way to know more details?
On Oct 31, 2012, at 10:11 AM, Richard Weait <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Summary > > The Data Working Group has had a high number of complaints about a > small number of mappers in the USA. The matter falls outside the > normal activities of DWG. DWG would like to help, but need your > guidance in how to do so. > > What is the Data Working Group? > > The Data Working Group exists to handle matters that users don't wish > to handle. Namely: > > Resolution of issues in copyright violation, disputes, vandalism, > and bots, beyond the normal means of the community. > Helping to set policy on data. > Detecting and stopping vandalism and imports that to not comply > with guidelines. > > Most of this is uncontroversial and largely invisible to the > community. As an example, when a mapper notices that somebody has > created an imaginary town and notifies DWG, DWG can contact the > mapper, block the account temporarily and revert the changesets to > restore the real map data. > > It is also uncontroversial when a user self-reports that their bot or > import has made an error and they ask DWG to revert the error for > them. I should also note that many experienced users on the OSM IRC > channels can offer help with undoing self-reported mistakes. DWG is > called at times to block parties involved in edit wars and other > harmful activities. > > The current matter > > An unusual number of complaints have come to DWG regarding a small > number of accounts. It is unusual to get a complaint about any > account from more than one other account. The numbers involved here > beggar our experience in any other part of the world. > > The matters from that varied complaints are typically differences of > opinion on tagging. > The mappers involved have generally attempted to resolve the matters in > private. > The matters generally involve a local mapper and one from further away. > The local mappers generally report that they are being 'over ruled' by > a remote mapper who won't accept the local mappers local knowledge. > > DWG has the administrative tools to block an account. What we don't > have is a clear rule stating that we can block an account for "being > difficult". > > Questions for the US mapping community: > > 1) Do you want DWG to act on your behalf on this matter and or similar > matters? > 2) How would you frame your guidance to DWG so that DWG act > appropriately now and in the future? > 3) How would you frame your guidance to DWG so that there are no > false-positives and few false-negatives? > > It is my opinion that this very limited number of difficult mappers > are a large net-negative to the US mapping community and that the > difficult behaviours must be stopped for the benefit of OSM. > > Best regards, > Richard Weait on behalf of > OSMF Data Working Group > > > [1] http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Data_Working_Group > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us Alex Barth http://twitter.com/lxbarth tel (+1) 202 250 3633 _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
