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Measuring merit in Wiki editing

Better implementation of watchlists: I sometimes miss changes because the watchlist displays the following change only. I did not yet found a way to permanently subscribe…

On your wiki profile page select the fourth email option, you’ll get an email when one item in your watch list changes. It works fine

OSM Needs Gateopeners too

@bgirardot, good points.

@dzertanoj, agreed espcially about Zveriks import strategy. It took us time to prevent a low quality import in Germany and France but we kept the door closed. His dataset wasn’t bad as such but as import. Seeing that an oil station is missing at a supermarket is good. Adding a gas station in the middle of the main building is not.

In this case a QA tool or something similar - Osmose, MapRoulette, StreetComplete… could be helpful: zooming relatively close to the supermarket with an aerial view as background layer and asking to locate a gas station. I mention the supermarket case because there it’s pretty obvious that a gas station exists close to the main building. But the data set was so old that he wanted to add closed stations too. So driving people to wrong places, worse that not driving them to right places.

Apparently we need more gateopeners to make him and others understand that low quality data can be used but MUST be used with caution.

Maps Update: 17th of April

@PlaneMad between16th March and 17th April it’s a month and a day, not just one day. Nevertheless amazing.

Metro Mapping Proposal (and what's wrong with proposals)

I know Antoine from Carto’Cité, I’m a French mapper and no, never heard them asking people to vote against this proposal. A subway station is hard to map, but we may have open data available or use improved techniques. I would not prohibit mapping a subway station as a polygon. Yes, split your proposal in two parts: a proposal for the changes and a wiki page for how to map a subway.

Kids city map carpet

According to http://www.aberlaas.com/fr/FR, it’s not valid anymore. Bloavez mad Pierrick ;-)