DWG has been contacted. Changeset comment has been entered along the lines Andy suggested.
I am not at a place at the moment where I can revert, if someone else whats to handle that would be great. Mike On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Andy Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 26/02/2016 21:09, Mike Thompson wrote: > > > <https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/G%20Jenny> > ... > appear to be of very poor quality, or out right vandalism. > > How should this be handled? > > > In this particular case, the changeset comments suggest it's a remote HOT > project ("#hotosm-project-1401#MissingMaps #CHAI Source=WorldView-2, > Digital Globe, NextView, 28 Sep 2013"), so I'd probably mention it on the > #hot IRC channel. They may be able to pin down where the edits were made > from and work out who the instructors / supervisors of the "missing maps" > session was (if it was one of their "group edit" sessions). > Notwithstanding "Doodle the Dog", I would cut new mappers a bit of slack > though - I'm sure my first 27 edits were a bit rubbish too. > > On the more general point, especially where mappers don't seem to be > "getting the hang of things" after extended periods editing, I'd just try > and concentrate on what they need to do to get from where they are to where > everyone would like them to be. This normally means things like "zoom in a > bit before editing" and "don't over-trace from aerial imagery if you're not > sure what it is". > > It is difficult though - we have a process for dealing with vandalism > (which is thankfully rare) that works well*, but as a project we deal less > well with edits that are well-meaning but "just a bit rubbish". We are > getting better though - http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussions is > full of people being polite, helpful and trying to make especially new > users better mappers. > > Cheers, > > Andy > > > * as Chris said, email the data working group (which is actually > d...@osmfoundation.org). > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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