How can I tell who is a one-edit-and-done spam, amazon logistics
account, and who is a first edit noob?
On 3/20/20 5:07 PM, Paul Johnson 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
<https://social.tulsa.ok.us/@BalooUriza/103855930214022255>, 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.
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