On Tuesday 12 July 2016, tuxayo wrote: > > Remember OSM is largely a do-ocracy - those who put work into > > developing the rules have a significant influence on their content. > > This does not make them illegitimate. > > The questions is how legitimate are they. To know if we can enforce > them strictly.
Legitimacy in an open community like OSM is a difficult question which in the framework of a do-ocracy is solved in a relatively practical way. But as said the rules are no laws. I would suggest to look at things more in terms of consistency - OSM is all about local knowledge and mappers mapping their day-to-day environment. It is inconsistent with this aim to allow others to mess around in this local mapping through automated edits without looking at individual features one by one. > > Both participating in creating and improving the rules as well as > > working on the DWG making sure mappers comply with the rules are > > open to everyone. > > Is joining the DWG necessary to enforce these rules/guidelines? No, as also said elsewhere every mapper can - if he/she sees edits that are for example factually incorrect or violate the rules of automated edits, imports etc. revert those changes, but of course after contacting the mappers in question and maybe asking them to fix it themselves and of course only if your knowledge of the area in question is sufficient to make such assessment. This happens more often than you probably think but ultimately it also does not work in many cases because not every mapper is willing or capable to do this. And - since you always talk about enforcing rules - this is generally not about enforcement, this is about maintaining a friendly and consistent environment for normal mappers. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
