2012/7/31 Peter Wendorff <wendo...@uni-paderborn.de>: > If you ever worked with mappers who do mapping in their spare time and are > not digital natives, programmers or database geeks, you will have seen some > who don't touch stuff as soon as it's too complex: Better keep the wrong > data than to break something that of course is cool, but I don't understand > why it's cool and how it works.
This is something a lot people around here forget too easily. And no, we should not "train" those people to use "cool geek-stuff". Because those people map out of fun. If OSM needs training they quit. Very simple. That's why mapping must stay simple, because the other side - the processing of the data - is done by our (as you called it so perfectly) "digital natives, programmers or database geeks". So yes, we can and should put the heavy load on them and not on the average guy out there. The alternative is great completely consistent data that nearly processes itself just by magic - but incomplete, outdated and simple useless because we are missing a lot of mappers. Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
