Can anybody tell me why a surveyor or tracer is free to keep adding
restuarants without punishment, but a gardener should follow a long
procedure to fix that ?
Surveyors have a very high standing in OSM. They are what differentiates
us from the the rest. A project with just surveyors and no gardeners can
work; a project with just gardeners and no surveyors cannot.
(with my end-consumer / map visitor hat on)
But I still can't find that damn 'restaurant' back! So it doesn't work
for me.. Now I'm a disgruntled user. So where is the added value of the
surveyor now ? We are looking at this too much from a developer /
techie / geek / superuser / ubermapper point of view. Aren't we doing
all this to actually retrieve _useful_ information from the data ?
The consumer doesn't care as in his perception: The restaurant is not
there in the first place. Unless a gardener steps in to weed it out.
It's 100% a team effort, and thinking about it more deeply: This
project wouldn't even be here without either of them. So I don't think
this analogy applies at all. Even though it sounds like a clever
statement and I -personally- get a warm fuzzy feeling reading it.
Glenn
--
"Everything is going to be 200 OK."
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