Manning, I think this is a great idea. It would be great to give local communities even more ownership over the map/data in their area.
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 7:57 AM, maning sambale <emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com>wrote: > Dear everyone, > > This is a thorny issue bit will ask anyway. ;) > > Not very often, but we do encounter questionable contributions. > Normally, local mappers would contact the specific contributor to > explain and provide guidance. But in some cases, these messages were > ignored and the contributor continues to do questionable edits. > > There is a DWG [0] to resolve such issue. We do understand that DWG > members are volunteers like most of us and local issues might not get > attention immediately. I would like to discuss the possibility for > our local chapter/community to form our own sort of DWG where we can > address local concerns/disputes. > > We have a few active and trusted volunteers who can discuss and > resolve such issues. But in rare occasions we think we should have > the rights to do "temporary blocks" within our local areas. > > [0] wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Data_working_group > -- > cheers, > maning > ------------------------------------------------------ > "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden > wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ > blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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