The problem with HOT inspired maperthons is half the participants will not return. So restricting their choices to the most common is helpful.
Typically I see highway=primary between two small settlements, highway=living_steet by mappers mapping from imagery in African countries that do not have any in legal existence. Whilst there is a mechanism of validation to correct errors it's only very recently that it has been possible to restrict validation to mappers with some experience. Even today with TM3 I can see tiles have been validated by mappers with very little or even no experience and it is not possible to identify the tiles easily to revalidate them and to be honest not that much HOT mapping gets validated. Even with mappers who use JOSM and do not map through HOT there are problems. One cheerful mapper managed to upload over 400 untagged ways with JOSM and they would have been warned when uploading them. It isn't possible to make things idiot proof new improved idiots arrive all the time but by suggesting the most common tags to new mappers might make it easier for them to select the correct values. Cheerio John On 24 Dec 2017 1:51 pm, "Andy Townsend" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 24/12/17 18:41, john whelan wrote: > >> True but it's to do with data quality and avoiding the need to validate. >> > > I don't think that different presets will "avoid the need to validate" in > any scenario (HOT or otherwise) - the only thing that will do that is > education and training - and having those educated and trained people come > back again to do more mapping. > > Best Regards, > > Andy > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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