>...and leave that editor free to make the same mistake again and again. >They probably didn't realise they'd made a mistake, and a friendly note >from you might stop the problem occurring again. > >Also, while they're correcting the mistake they've made, they may also >spot places in the same area where the map needs updating. As a remote >mapper, you're not going to be able to do this. > >That's why using QA tools is fine, but just blindly "fixing" errors >without communicating with local mappers doesn't produce the best >outcome for OSM overall. > >I do understand the urge to "fix" inconsistencies in the data like this, >but until every single geographic feature on the face of the Earth is >represented in OSM somehow, it shouldn't be our highest priority. > >J.
Seems to much extroversive for me.
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