Hi Frederik, I have a more fundamental question based on the assumption that jobs in the HOT Tasking Manager occupy a small part of the real physical world: Why does it matter what the changeset comments in this area is? If everyone mapping a city in Nigeria, such as in task http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1335, uses a comment to reflect this, how does this bother people mapping outside that area?
If people, for some reason, map outside of this city using the same changeset, you might notice it in your local area, but thanks to the comment you'll be bale to understand what the problem was. You say that you find these comments "not useful", but can you expand? Could you please let me know what useful things I could be spending my time on? Thanks, Joseph On 19 November 2015 at 00:11, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to draw everyone's attention to a long-standing > community recommendation: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_changeset_comments > > It explains why you should use sensible changeset comments that describe > what you (think you) have been doing. > > I don't know exactly who encourages this, but I am seeing lots of > changesets with comments like this: > > #MissingMaps #hotosm-project-12345 Lubumbashi, Congo (DRC) #100mapathons > #OSMGeoWeek > > This is *not* useful. First of all, we're not Twitter; we don't evaluate > these hashtags. I don't know if there are some downstream services that > do, but if so, please switch to using a secondary tag (remember, > changesets, like other OSM objects, can have any number of tags). > > As a reader of the edit history of a place, I am interested in someone > writing that they have traced buildings or drawn roads or done whatever. > I'm not so much interested in (what I perceive as) vanity hashtags, they > don't help me understand what the person did. > > I mean look at this: > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/history#map=6/8.418/43.923 > > It's really a caricature of what changeset comments were meant to be. > > Can it be fixed somehow, or have we permanently moved from changeset > comments being aimed at your fellow human mappers to changeset comments > being auto-generated for consumption by some software that makes sense > of them? > > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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