OpenStreetMap
Hi:
This is just a quick update to address all the CCI who believe it is essential to have comprehensive and descriptive comments.
What do they really do, and who are they for? I spent a little time scanning a few hundred, and they are all basically useless. Additionally, a comment could be in an indecipherable language and totally unrelated to what was actually changed.
I have over 12 thousand edits maybe averaging 300 members. With maybe 10 members per documentable change, at 2 minutes to document each change, that is 12 000300/102/60 equals 12 000 hours. Anyone possessing even a minimal IQ can appreciate that the task is insurmountable for any productive mapper.
If obstruction and obfuscation is the goal, commenting is part of that solution.
thanks, Baden
Discussion
Comment from SomeoneElse on 28 May 2022 at 21:17
You were asked to use descriptive comments on future changes at changeset/120723949 because your earlier lack of descriptive comments caused a lot of confusion.
It’s not some personal vendetta against you - OpenStreetMap is something that we create together, and we all work together better if there’s effective communication and we can all understand what each other is doing.
Anything that is a barrier to that means that together we’re less effective than we could be (and I’d argue that comments like “Anyone possessing even a minimal IQ…” don’t help, either).
Best Regards,
Andy