Hi jinalfoflia, I appreciate your answer and feedback but some of your points will need to be clarified further:
As far as I am concerned, the new note to the companies that were added in the Thailand wiki applies to new and current campaigns.
Your campaign may have started in 2020 but it is still active today and referenced by your mappers in 2022. You are not exempt from any new community policies.
In the referred comment, you agreed to cut down on curves at turns in November 2020. Yet in 2021, I have seen hundreds of these issues popping up everywhere. Whether it’s an internal quality control or a policy issue, the problem remains.
Absolutely not. Please consider that only corporations like yours and non-profit organizations use remote mappers in Thailand (directly or through maproulette.org). Most mappers in Thailand are local mappers doing changes based on local knowledge and priority should be given to them.
Of course, there will be mistakes done by local mappers, and these will be resolved in time by others in the local community.
Without local knowledge, your remote mappers should simply not be allowed to alter locals’ contributions. Period.
In fact, the few times you reverted some of my own changes ( and within hours ), my changesets were marked as “ground survey”, tags added included “source=GPS” and even a GPX trace was listed in the sources, this clearly shows you did not care and you cannot be simply relied on to alter any existing tags.
Your own policy above has worked fine in urban areas, but it has been a complete disaster in rural areas.
Under the pretext of visible “rooftops”, your mappers continuously added residential roads everywhere outside of settlements. Most of these “roads” are actually agricultural tracks leading to farms, and many are unpaved, 4WD only.
Many visible “rooftops” are often huts used for rest, and even if some villagers choose to live permanently in their farming estate, it does not change the main purpose of the road. Maps in these areas became towns redirecting traffic through unusable agricultural tracks.
I believe you misunderstood the overall message. The local community came up with minor road classification definitions so that everyone including your organization should use them. These are not mere suggestions as you imply, but a standard to reach higher quality and to prevent conflicts between mappers.
If you have any concerns about these definitions, the community will be happy to revisit them if there is a valid use-case from your side:
https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=73368
PS: I apologize for the tone of my message but you have to understand I have been in contact with you for about 1 year and I have seen not seen any improvements, so my patience is simply running out. I have invested a lot of effort in improving OSM in my region and will not accept to go through these conflicts again. Happy new year.