• kamenLady.@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Don’t get any changes reviewed before , you know, really replacing map data ? I’m just curious. There are a lot of players worldwide, I can imagine the game going strong for another few years and OSM ending up choke full of areas that were pokemon’d and made unusable.

    • joostjakob@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      “Made unusable”: that’s not how it works. Even with occasional vandalism, there’s so much more people positively contributing, that overall the map just keeps on getting better and better.

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      6 months ago

      I’m a pretty junior contributor (I spent a couple years completing quests on StreetComplete and only have been adding new buildings, etc for a few weeks). I don’t know a ton about how the organization is run, so I can only talk from my experiences. I’ve been able to upload changes which will be live before they will be reviewed. I know there are reviewers who go through areas regularly, but they definitely don’t cover everywhere. I’m not sure if OSM has the ability to lockdown areas with frequent vandalism.

    • Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de
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      6 months ago

      From what I can tell, changes are just uploaded immediately. I think If someone adds wrong data, another contributor can revert it.