From Richard:

If we can do that and use open-source software then that’s great. But our mission is open geographic data, not open-source software. If our developers find Github helps them build tools for open geographic data more effectively than Gitlab does; or if self-hosting Gitlab would divert our sysadmins from the core geodata hosting; or if paying for a third-party Gitlab install would divert funds from geodata initiatives; then we should stick with Github.

I want to +1 this. OpenStreetMap Foundation should not prescribe any particular tool upon itself or any of the volunteers that participate in the OSM community. It should use tools that make the map better or support our community making the map better. Our volunteers have limited energy and time. We should ask that they spend it on making OpenStreetMap better and not worry about pushing a FOSS mindset.

Thanks for sharing this, Mike! Great to see how Facebook is catching harmful edits to OSM, too.

I didn’t work there, I just visited several times and ran some meetups there back before I moved out of Chicago. It’s a great space!

Hey I used to go to 1871 all the time. Have fun!

This sounds really interesting! Would you be interested in talking about this at the upcoming State of the Map US in Minneapolis this September? It’d be cool to hear more about how folks use OSM in emergency services like this.

By that I mean: are you going to keep running this? Will you work with the OSMCha team to flag changesets that introduce new low-quality data?

This is really interesting. How are you applying this work?