Paul, Thanks for all of your contributions to OSM over the years!
I am sorry to hear about your truck. I hope the police are able to recover it in good condition. I appreciate the support you, and others in your line of work, are providing to keep our medical system running during this crucial time. Mike On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 5:09 PM Paul Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > So, you all know at this point that I've been heavily invested in editing OSM > and contributing to my maximum activity, less as a need to help a charity and > more of an obligation to the public to do the most good with the short time I > have on this planet. However, I've had a few events come up that are more or > less killing my ability to keep up. > > I'm taking a step back from being the primary editor in the Oklahoma region > until this passes. > > 3) Amazon Logistics and a revolving door team of one-edit-and-done spam > accounts keeps throwing paid contributions into Oklahoma that are of poorly > aligned, largely fictional and low quality. I'm stuck cleaning up in a > neglected part of North America some particularly low quality edits with > limited resources and little ability to find more. I hope other contributors > can help keep abreast and I hope OSM Foundation can help keep paid > contributors to account. I don't think it's unreasonable to think that paid > mapper should be contributing far higher quality data than your average > volunteer first time mapper, and I think OSM needs to have a serious > conversation about minimum qualifications for paid mapping that I simply > don't have the time or energy for at this point. Dealing with this (and > staying abreast extensive OkTrans highway modernization efforts lately) have > been a major part of my editing (and while OkTrans is unavoidable, Amazon is > inexcusable). > > 2) My truck was stolen last night, along with the dashcams I use for > Mapillary, essentially making long range surveying impossible and imperiling > my survival since, if for nothing else, I need to hit Costco for restocking > my pantry and storeroom. As such, I had to call off work and spent most of > the day today dealing with the police today. > > 1) I work in the IT department of a major regional hospital on the front > lines of the COVID-19 response in the US. My vacation at the end of next > month, and my weekends for the next two months, have been cancelled, and I'm > expected to work 8+ hours a day, 7 days a week to help keep things up and > running so the medical staff don't have to think about the computers. > > I really hope OSMF and the DWG takes a good, hard and critical look at > dealing with the low quality edits from Amazon and spammers while I deal with > acquiring another (or, best case, my stolen) pickup and dealing with my > professional life. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
