Note: I'm replying to an old mail. If you don't have it. You can find it here: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2017-June/078181.html "The real face of MAPS.ME edits and notes - a short analysis"
>The price to reproduce all the on-the-ground mappers' > contributions we have is > likely to be somewhere between 4 million and 150 million euros: Hello, These monetary considerations could be valid so long as the MAPS.ME bad edits do not exceed a certain threshold. Past that threshold, maintainers can no longer keep up with the noise and the value of the map essentially drops to zero. Take a look at the Middle East, the map was filled with POIs such as "my house", "my uncle's house". For a map consumer, it would be a poor choice to use OpenStreetMap in these regions, because it's junk. They'd prefer Google Maps or Bing Maps. And so, OpenStreetMap becomes valueless, regardless of much money would have been invested in surveying, etc. I've deleted thousands of personal bookmarks in that area but I can no longer keep up and have no desire to continue doing so. The "my house" style tags will probably re-accumulate with time, reducing the value of the map. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
