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Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Beware Pokemon users
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 00:40:18 +0100
From: Rod Bera <r...@goarem.org>
To: Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk>
Hi Andy,
I get what you mean,
and I acknowledge that though I consider OSM should be put first this is
not the case for everyone, and this is fine.
But here things are going one step further: it's about deliberately
putting non-existing features and/or mis-tagging features, which amounts
to vandalism.
A new kind of vandalism, as we could be overwhelmed by the number of
"users" doing it in various places for a coinciding purpose.
To me this is quite new.
I hope this won't happen.
And I won't comment your appreciation over "geographical practices".
Every one is welcome to practice geography their own way...
As long as we are talking about geography, i.e. depicting what is
(really is, not what Pokemon hunter wish were) on or around the surface
of Earth.
Regards,
Rod
On 26/12/16 13:19, Andy Mabbett wrote:
> On 26 December 2016 at 11:36, Rod Bera <r...@goarem.org> wrote:
>
>> Systematic bias put into the OSM base towards maximising benefits for a
>> minority of users is a threat.
>> Especially when the primary interest of these users is not OSM in itself.
>
> Most edits to OSM benefit only a minority of users
>
> Most editors of OSM - including me - do so because we have a primary
> interest which is not OSM itself.
>
> Shall those of us who edit OSM because we have an interest in a
> locality, or a use-case, all stop editing, and leave OSM only to those
> for whom it is some form of geographical masturbation?
>
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Rod Béra, MCF Géomatique / Lecturer, Geomatics
et SIG pour l'Environnement / and Environmental GIS
Agrocampus-Ouest|65 r.Saint-Brieuc|CS84215|35042 Rennes cedex|France
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