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Recognize mappers working for an organization

Open musuruan opened this issue 3 years ago • 3 comments

I'm submitting a feature request

Brief Description

It would be nice if OSMCha would recognize mappers working for an organization like Amazon, Apple, Mapbox, TomTom, etc.

What is the motivation / use case for this feature?

Not all editing teams perform quality edits and having a way to directly identify users belonging to these teams and/or changeset done by these teams would be helpful.

musuruan avatar Dec 16 '21 11:12 musuruan

See https://github.com/OSMCha/osmcha-frontend/issues/454#issuecomment-625264679

@jake-low I would like to suggest closing this and/or said issue, in favour of said comment and linked issue improving About page.

danieldegroot2 avatar Jul 28 '25 20:07 danieldegroot2

See #454 (comment)

@jake-low I would like to suggest closing this (and said) issue, in favour of said comment and linked issue improving About page.

That's not what I asked for. This proposal requires an organization to register its team in OSMCha. If they do not, we won't have these data.

Organized editing teams must be reported in the OSM wiki (e.g. TomTom: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Organised_Editing/Activities/TomTom#Editing_Team). It would be better to get these data there.

musuruan avatar Aug 02 '25 08:08 musuruan

Maybe could be a script, which could import html/links(/xpath) and convert to user id (uid), or perhaps there is more friendly (API/query) approach. (OSMCha developer could ask Minh Nguyen (1ec5) about this.)

However, there might be some limitations, for the wiki there is currently

  • no required structured format (only basic set of concepts/topics as start), so an import script would have to guess which table to import, from which pages.
  • assumption would have to be made that these pages are already written/linked/categorized in such a way that they can be properly found/interpreted and remain as such.
  • no existing import script or repository collecting this data in a structured format (as far as I know)

Sidenotes:

  • If it (also) requires teams to take specific action they are not already required to take by the guidelines, it should be discussed with DWG. Otherwise, it is optional for them to do so.
  • It might be better to implement this on osm(f)-level (OSMCha developer could check for existing discussions on this topic). Otherwise, it is up to willingness of independent maintainers to maintain this feature.

danieldegroot2 avatar Aug 02 '25 11:08 danieldegroot2