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Out of interest what measures are there in OSM to prevent people 'pranking' the system and entering duff data?
by weavie 11y ago
Out of interest what measures are there in OSM to prevent people 'pranking' the system and entering duff data?
- avar 11y agoThe same as on Wikipedia or any other collaborative "wiki"-like tool. There are active mappers in each area that look at changes that are being done there, we also have access to the complete edit history so we can see what changed when, where and by whom. People do vandalize the data occasionally, or accidentally screw something up. That gets dealt with relatively quickly. Although like Wikipedia the likelyhood of someone spotting bad edits is inversely proportional to how "busy" the area is, if you're going to add a new street to the center of Paris that's likely to be spotted much sooner than adding some fake country rode to the middle of Siberia. Mostly it just works though because good actors outnumber bad actors by many orders of magnitude.
- the_mitsuhiko 11y ago> The same as on Wikipedia or any other collaborative "wiki"-like tool. But that's not unlike what Google has and that did not help :(
- Piskvorrr 11y agoOnly in the sense "all cars have four wheels, so a Indy 500 car is just like a dump truck". Google has "this will go through Our Glorious Administration and we might decide to look at it." In OSM, it is possible (and encouraged) to first contact the original mapper for clarification in good faith - much faster and more efficient.
- rmc 11y agoAn active community of equals and map enthusiasts, who feel like they are participating in and sharing in creating something for everyone.