On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 3:59 PM Greg Troxel <g...@lexort.com> wrote: > Dave F via talk <talk@openstreetmap.org> writes: > > > In my area, AL are adding legitimate data which helps improve the > > quality of the OSM database. I believe they make the same amount of > > errors as any other contributors, including experienced ones. > > > > Unsure why he thinks OSMF should be keeping an eye on contributors > > purely because they're paid. > > I doubt Paul, when he started his first *paid* job was an expert at > > it, & never made a mistake. > > > > It sounds like Paul's got his knickers in a twist over something other > > than poor quality data. > > This really seems unfair. > > When someone maps for OSM because they want to, they have goals and a > typically a good attitude about community norms. > > When someone is a a paid mapper, their goals come from the person who is > paying them, and they don't necessarily care about the overall health of > OSM. >
This is accurate. I don't consider it unreasonable to expect a paid mapper to have a higher level of professionalism and due care than the volunteers. So, I will say, I am *definitely not* holding the Amazon Logistics mappers to the same standard I hold other volunteers. I hold them to *a much higher standard*. > Really these edits are not so different from mechanical > edits, and I think the organizers need to own the responsibilility for > high quality, and the standard should be quite a bit better than normal > hand mapping norms. > I honestly don't think we could get worse results than Amazon Logistics is contributing now if we outsourced map editing to Amazon Mechanical Turk for a penny an edit.
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