While Tomas' reply is quite harsh, I can relate. Personally, I am not a big fan how MAPS.ME development is directed. I asked them to implement addr:place, which they didn't, and now that they have an editor, people inadvertently mistag such addresses in villages without street names (which are common in many European countries). Their development seems to revolve around "next big marketable feature for new market release". While there *is* polishing going on lately, it's not enough. They fail to understand that devil is in the detail - and that such small defects pile up. I find it odd that they can pull off big features yet so often dismiss user-proposed enhancements as too time-consuming or too hard to implement. Whoever watches their GitHub closely will know what I mean. My bottom line: you will never be perfect if you don't aspire to be. I see that MAPS.ME could become a replacement for Google/Apple/HERE maps, but only if they ask themselves what makes a map application good. I don't know if they really intend not to go where others have, or is it lack of self-awareness. For instance, who would think it's reasonable (as in everyday-reasonable) to just display geo coordinates on a map pin which doesn't happen to land on any symbol. Normal maps do a reverse geocode. And so on, and so on. It's these nuisances that pile up.
Michał On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 8:57 PM, Johan C <osm...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't know why it should be an invention by Zverik. However, since he is > both an OSFM board member and working for MAPS.ME he might show up with a > solution. > > Cheers, Johan > > 2016-06-19 20:45 GMT+02:00 Tomas Straupis <tomasstrau...@gmail.com>: >> >> There is one bad convergence on this. >> >> While I can also observe that in Lithuania in last month there was a >> huge increase in mapsme "edits" and 50% of those are straight bullshit >> (like adding as an artwork objects like "my crib", "place I fish", >> adding cyrillic names to name tag in Lithuania where cyrilic is >> totally alien etc.), 30% edits like adding duplicate points and only >> ~20% being edits which could be interpreted and after editing begin >> useful. Thankfully in Lithuania we employ a mechanism similar to >> wikipedias "patrolling" so things like that are fixed pretty quickly. >> But still it uses resources which could be used better. >> >> But this is one another Zveriks "inventions" introducing havoc in >> OSM. We had russian automated translation adding to name:ru tags >> worldwide "because world of tank needs that". Before that we had >> zveriks "idea" of introducing natural=water for everything that is >> blue to tagging. Which was made less than a year after he joined OSM >> and with hundreds of thousands of objects already marked in a >> different way (that idea has failed because even after five years >> people still mark objects usual way rather than the new scheme). >> >> Worst of all Zverik did not engage in any discussion about >> aforementioned bad decisions! >> >> Maybe we should have some guards against such non discussed high >> impact "inventions"? And in case of "natural=water for everything >> blue" some mechanism to revert such not well thought out "proposals"? >> >> -- >> Tomas >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
