I downloaded and made a test edit (adding an address to a local POI) with maps.me just now to understand how it works. It does at least make you log in to OSM. I entered in a comment on the change, however, I note that maps.me overwrote my user-entered comment with a generic comment in the changeset.
On Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 10:27 AM Stephan Knauss <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > On 12.11.2020 10:55, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: > > Is it just me or are Maps.me Openstreetmap contributors unaware of > > Openstreetmap messages ? Does anyone here have seen Maps.me > > Openstreetmap contributors answer to Openstreetmap messages ? > > I share your experience. Typical maps.me edits are of low quality and > frequently show a misuse of tags, certainly not following to our > community standards. > > I have a very low response rate on comments. Probaly one out of hundred > responds. And I have not seen them going back to fix their edits ever. > > I think OSM API should block edits until email address is confirmed. > And probably re-check the response to emails once a year or switch the > account into read-only mode. > Participating in changeset discussions or using osm messaging could > reset that counter as well. > > Stephan > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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