Hello everyone, apologies for the delay in response, I haven’t been keeping well. First of all, thank you all for the comments and feedback, we are learning and this is helping us get better.
@cmoffroad
Sure thing, there was some misunderstanding at our end, but noted, we will ensure that any new campaigns will be shared on this forum as well as Github.
Noted, going forward, if there’s a change, we will be leaving OSM notes for the community to help us with or ask a question on the changeset.
Make sense, and thank you for the explanation on the usage of roads in rural areas. We are here to learn from the community. Going forward will tag the unpaved roads in the agricultural or forestry areas as tracks referring to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Thailand.
We do like the idea of using the Grabremote=yes
tag when we are mapping at scale, but the question is, would the community be okay to verify and remove the tag post verification? As a practice we have been using a unique changeset comment for all our campaigns/projects, that helps folks and us to filter changesets pertaining to a particular project. We mention them in our Github ticket too. One can use OSMCha to filter them out - https://osmcha.org/filters?aoi=0fa187ae-ce9b-4def-a17d-db9c2b0c9549. Just want to ensure that we don’t have an additional step for the community.
This is a valid comment, @stephen, as mentioned in one of the comments, the policies that we have are okay for urban areas but when it comes to rural locations, that’s where we would require the community’s help, and if you take a look into our past discussions on Github https://github.com/GRABOSM/Grab-Data/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3A%22Community+Review%22+is%3Aclosed, we have been consistently communicating and seeking community guidance to better understand and modify our policies accordingly. We will continue to ask questions so that it’ll help us map and understand the data better.
Rest assured, going forward we will be using forum to communicate, improve our mapping policies and collaborate with the community. Thank you again everyone for the feedback and this discussion.