On 16/06/2015, Andrew Wiseman <[email protected]> wrote: > Something else semi-related that might be a terrible idea: I wonder if > there ought to be some way to show which edits are by remote mappers and by > locals? Could you do this automatically via IP address or something by > seeing who was nearby and who was not?
That's an interesting approach. I don't think IP-based identification would work because of all the false-positives : I spend my time between France and Ireland, and I'm a local in both places even if I edit while in the other country. What I've been mulling over is the "home location" data on the profile. Right now it's close to useless. I'd like to be able to set multiple areas (not points) and rate them "can survey / good local knowledge / particularly interested". The tricky part is creating a UI that isn't overwhelming. Appart from categorising if an edit is "local" or not, it'd be very helpfull to contact relevant contributors for an area. Pascal Neis's tools are usefull (and have the advantage of not requiring opt-in), but not as good as explicit information would be. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
