Some people value imaginary internet points so highly, they edit OSM willy-nilly to make it conform to maproulette, disregarding ground truth, not checking if the tasks analysis is complete and mapping slightly wrong around the world.

This is mad MUCH worse by the fact that the default setting in maproulette is that when you finish a task, the system takes you to an another one at a random position in the world. I have no idea, for instance, if this Italian restaurant in Minsk has a correct web address (or if it exists at all), but I'm incentivized to jut remove the tag and get those sweet points.

I see two clusters with "2", maybe that means that there are 4 tasks on the map segment which need fixing.

Clicking on any of the two clusters does nothing. The sidebar has just an odd "Global: [amenity=doctors] and [healtcare:speciality=*] missing [healthcare]", which, when I click it, reloads the page and shows me a world view with problematic doctors.

When I deselect "Cluster", then nothing is shown, instead of those 4 clustered tasks that apparently need fixing. I expected to see 4 individual tasks, instead of the two clustered ones.

At the same time a label tells me "23 tasks found", yet I see none. I assume those two pairs of clusters of two should represent 4 tasks, but I can't interact with them in any way.

I also can't easily navigate to a place of interest because there is no location searchbox.

I was expecting something like StreetComplete.

I think it could be a really good use of AI to let me, for example, snap a photo of the menu and then have it automatically generate the OSM tags. Then someone just has to review if it all is appropriate.

Just bring able to walk down the street, snap a bunch of menu or sign pics, then go home and drop pins and confirm tags from photos would be great.

Heck it could even scrape their website to verify the information too!

Does anyone know if there is a project like this? Or have any thoughts on if this is a reasonable approach? I think as long as there's a human in the loop checking things it should be fine by OSM.

(At some point they made some change that left my class of SU behind, but since the original purpose of 4sq died long ago there wouldn't be a point to donate my time to it now.)

The main trouble is licensing and change tracking. Most of the scraped data is protected by copyright or database rights so it can't be imported.

And even if the licensing is solved, you have the problem of matching scraped data to OSM data and what to do when changes disagree. For example, a store might be scraped as a point in the middle of a shopping mall, but then an OSM editor would come by and move it to the correct section of the mall - the next import round shouldn't undo that. Or maybe a store changes opening times but forgets to update their website - an editor can fix that, but the next import would break it again.

I have a sort of "grey area" idea for this, but I haven't had the time to try it. Basically, I would track changes in AllThePlaces and create "change reports" such as "store X changed open times from AAA to BBB". Then, I'd make a UI that would show you the changed website alongside an OSM editor and a convenient "copy change" button.

This way, a human is still the one looking at the website and entering info into OSM, which is essentially the same as in-person surveying. The copy button is "just a convenience".

Still, I think this is too messy from a legal standpoint and the OSM editors wouldn't allow it out of caution...