Excellent post, Richard. +1 to your suggestion that we all "assume good faith". We should all collaborate and encourage camaraderie between mappers.
--SEJ Sent from my electronic tether. > On Nov 18, 2013, at 12:12, Richard Weait <[email protected]> wrote: > > When you find a suspicious edit, try to be part of the solution, > rather than merely a reporting system. :-) > > If you are experienced enough, attempt to determine which account > introduced the suspicious data. Contact that account through the user > mail system. Presume good faith; they may well be a new and > enthusiastic mapper with an incomplete understanding of OpenStreetMap. > They might also be more experienced than you are and be making some > form of advanced edit with which you are unfamiliar. Your goal is to > make contact with the mapper in question, and find out what they > intended with their edit. Ideally, either they will learn something > and become a better mapper, or you will. :-) > > If you aren't experienced enough to do this on your own, contact a > more-experienced mapper who you trust for their judgement and ask for > their assistance. Follow along so that you can proceed with less help > next time. > > If you aren't able to get a satisfactory response within a reasonable > time, say a week or two, consider asking other mappers for their > opinion on the edits. Are they really a problem, or simply rare or > idiosyncratic? Consider as a group if the data should stay or not. > Please note that a "satisfactory response" is not restricted to > another mapper agreeing with you. :-) > > Repair or revert data that is incorrect. Get help from a > more-experienced mapper if you haven't done this before. > > All of this should happen before you consider reaching out to the Data > Working Group. The DWG and the OpenStreetMap sysadmins, do have > additional tools for dealing with spammers, vandals and persistent, > umm, "whackos". But these tools are rather heavy and blunt > instruments. The DWG wield these tools with exquisite finesse and > with surgical precision but you can help a great deal by solving > problems before they require intervention from DWG. Reserve the DWG > for those things that you can not reasonably do for yourself. > > You can make the initial contact and do the basic research. Please do. > > Take responsibility for improving the map (we all do), but also take > responsibility for improving the mappers. Temper this by > understanding that the mapper who you improve may well be yourself. > And that's just fine, too. :-) > > Best Regards and Happy Mapping, > > Richard > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
