Hey!
I have an experimental renderer and from time to time I find "bugs" with
planet.osm that I would like to see fixed. From what I can tell, I'm
not alone - GeoFabrik (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Inspector)
Skobbler (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapdust) and
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Keep_Right are years ahead of me in
reporting bugs, but I suspect I detect some novels bugs that aren't
frequently reported.
I like to contribute content in my area, and I am willing to take time
to fix bugs in my area. Trying to find local issues isn't obvious -
there are places to find issues, but they certainly aren't obvious from
Potlatch.
I would like to propose three changes:
* We currently have roughly 700,000 nodes/ways/relations marked with
FixMe. There isn't a lot of structure here, and I suspect a lot of
these issues aren't moving. I propose we add a layer of structure.
Would could categorize bugs into categories. For instance:
o FixMe:Legal - Content with potentially legal issues
o FixMe:Topology - Content that violates the semantics of how it
is tagged. (Multigons with inners outside of all outers for
instance).
o FixMe:Redundant - overlapping geometry, or tags which are redundant.
o FixMe: Nice to have and so on
I think the goal should be for the 700K existing items to eventually
be categorized and the "error" type issues get fixed.
* People in their Profile Description identify regions for which they
will accept notifications of newly detected bugs, even if they
didn't author the content. For instance:
o FixMeOwn: -123.321 -122.959 49.204 49.328
As a contributor, if I was told about new issues in my area of
concern, I would take a look at them (no promises I can fix them).
* I believe that the tiles rendered on the www.openstreetmap.org page
should be marked up to show errors (not all fixme's, but a known set
of them). The tiles on www.openstreetmap.org are there for mappers
to fix data, not to just look pretty. A red outline on ways/nodes
that have FixMe:Legal, FixMe:Topology and FixMe:Vandalism would draw
mappers attention to things that can improve.
I'm just floating an idea. I can do very little to forward these ideas,
but I can tell you I would contribute more if there was a way for me to
enter bugs I find world wide and find bugs in the areas I know.
John
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