On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 4:44 AM, Daniel Sabo <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Maybe you don't like it, but you are not the entire OSM community. >> David, how would you propose to measure consensus from the OSM community? > > I assume you were replying to me? At present I think it's pretty much > impossible: e.g. the license debate :). We just don't have enough OSMers on > one communication channel to make real policy about these things, so I expect > were stuck with the Wikipedia model right now where the few people with > enough technical knowledge to revert things try to police everyone else. Yes, my mistake (re: your name). I've been thinking about this communication issue and am working on a technical solution. If you know Ruby or if others who do want to help, I've forked a copy of the ruby port and have been working on something- it's just not on the top of my list at this moment, but it could be with others. Or a sprint during SOTM EU? > Really it should be the importer making those fixes if at all possible, so > personally I would be much faster to revert things. That's fair. I think as a community we're hesistant to revert changes since things like that can end up in an edit war. I think a better communication system could help here. > If we could email back someone their changesets as an OSM file and say "it > was nice of you to try importing this but could you not erase that lake over > on the left?" I think we could even do it without chasing too many would be > importers away. That's another thing I think we need, along with communication- a tool do incrementally edit a changeset based on a previous changeset, and or at least track those lineages. Eg I make a changeset, and you "fix" it, and there's a tag that says something like "based_on" with a changeset ID. > A major limitation is also that there's really no way to collaborate on > something like this without dumping it into the main map. I wrote an email about this to talk-us about a year ago. Want me to dig it up? - Serge _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
