Openstreetmap, a global map for worldwide insight

Re:Openstreetmap, a global map for worldwide insight by tpetry on Friday July 03, 2020 @05:27AM (#23722460)

The answer is crowd sourcing. Everything one person creates or modifies needs to be voted on by multiple people. After x votes and y percent in favour of the change it‘s visible to everyone. The x and y numbers could change depending on the user‘s reputation etc.

Think of it like the stack overflow „tasks“ you are asked to do all the time: review this question, do this, do that ...

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Re:Openstreetmap, a global map for worldwide insight by rathel on Friday July 03, 2020 @05:33AM (#23722506)

Because of the OSM data model, changes can't be really held in "unaccepted" state. One would run into editing conflicts[1].

On Wikipedia withholding edits until review works in some language versions [2], but because Wikipedia pages are "atoms" that stand on their own, they have it easier.

[1] https://learnosm.org/en/josm/josm-conflict-resolution/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Flagged_revisions/Si...

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Re:Openstreetmap, a global map for worldwide insight by matkoniecz on Friday July 03, 2020 @07:16AM (#23723008)

This would not work, in nearly all cases there is not enough of mappers to handle this.

And anyway real problem is a stale data - especially shops. Data that was wrong from start is rare, OSM has nearly no vandalism.

Making easier to verify data is much better idea (one of nicely working things is a StreetComplete Android app - about 20% of shops where I am asked to add opening hours are gone, so I open a note, take a photo and later me or some other mapper removes no longer existing shops)

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