Hello All,
After Ajay mentioned that we stopped working on Thailand, we did not continue to make any new additions to the map, however our internal. Quality team found few mistakes which were corrected. This resulted in viewing new submissions in Bangkok.
I can confirm we’ve asked our folks to stop mapping the very same day. Some edits may have gone in post due to communication lag but we’ve stopped working on Thailand overall as a country till we meet and decide our next course of action. As I mentioned, we’re only looking to do this together with the community and are happy to stall efforts till we come up with a plan of action. I’ll confirm dates and time in the first week of January once our schedule is a bit more set. My local country lead as well as the singapore team will be present to address any concerns.
Please refer to lavanyas comments below from global logic about the changes too. Happy holidays all, looking forward to seeing you’ll in person soon.
In case anyone is interested, the organized edit guideline provides a good overview of how it should be done. Of course implementation should be meaningful as well and not just a bueacratic exercise.
I’ll be in BKK on 15th and 16th so a meeting in our office there would be best as I’m coming for some important meetings. If not, I’ll have to make another trip to Chiang Mai on different dates. Please let me know if BKK can happen, we can have a couple of hours workshop and I’ll involve pimlada and team too.
@russ- No worries, I’ll fly down to Chaing Mai. How about we schedule something for the 17th (Jan) in the day? I’m flexible to meet anywhere you guys suggest.
Just spotted that this didn’t get a response earlier.
If you’re untangling a series of complicated edits where you need to reconcile the revert of a series of problematical edits with changes made after them, JOSM can be the best option, but as you’ve probably found it can get very complicated very fast when you have to keep in mind two different “mental pictures” of the data - OSM as it is now and OSM as it was before, and compare what JOSM says it is trying to do with both of those.
You do have the option of doing some processing on the data that you feed into the revert scripts (in the case of the big revert above I considered leaving POIs with names untouched, until I translated some of the names and got things like “experiment” as the name. That sort of processing can be done on the data before you feed it in to the revert scripts, and you can also do things programmatically with the output where it says “I couldn’t revert X because of Y” - it might be that for some values of Y you want to revert anyway.
It will be tight for me to get back from Pai by 12 noon, but I’ll do my best. Perhaps we can meet close to the airport to make it easier for your flight back, that way we can run on from 2pm if necessary. Rgds, Russ.
I know the frustration as a community member.
I know I am not part of this forum.
But I felt very bad seeing the language used by you in this public forum.
Appreciate if you can use better language in public forum.
I should be free most days in January. Although I’m regrettably not doing much Thailand mapping right now, preferring to work on Alaskan projects, I would definitely be willing to attend.
I would much rather meet face-to-face. However, I can appreciate the difficulty you will have to undergo getting here for a meeting of this type so I’m open to the idea.
Sorry, I can’t make it to a face to face meeting. Would be great if you could take some notes.
Also if grab plans to do some fixes, please document the rough timeline.
Thanks to all involved for the effort in improving the OSM quality.
THanks for all your responses. My tickets are all done, so I’ll be landing 16th late night and leave 17th at 5.20pm. Just let me know a spot anywhere and I’ll be there, if not happy to host you guys in the hotel coffee shop or lobby as well. Im yet to book my stay, but will keep the group posted if everyones cool?