Was a really rude intro to the community and reminded me a lot of SO or Wikipedia with its gatekeeping.
I've never submitted a single thing since then. If that's how you treat newcomers then I want nothing to do with you.
> The user's answer is automatically processed and uploaded directly into the OSM database.
https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/
Of course uploading a few months of changes all at once is going to cause issues, naturally some will conflict with other changes that have been made in the meantime.
I hope you reconsider and try again. Many of us are actually here to help.
It happens automatically in default configuration.
You can enable manual upload in settings if you want, but then, well, you need to upload it manually.
I am contributor to StreetComplete - so maybe I will add feature to start reminding about upload if edits are old.
in my experience, you don't have to manually submit in streetcomplete, and it does happen automatically.
> a few months worth of my travels
Was this travels in your local neighbourhood, going home daily, or one trip to another country or in a very rural area? I'm asking if you had constant data connectivity, intermittent, once daily, or none during that time?
It sucks to have a bad first experience from a Gatekeeping community. Of course, as newbs, we try to move slowly with small changes first to test the waters. That worked for me, sorry that it did not work for you. I also take the point that was raised about not editing based off months-old data.
OSM is like Wikipedia for maps. Complete with all of Wikipedia's baggage and wannabe bureaucrats.
OpenStreetMap has strict demands on how contributors should structure their changes, but has no way to enforce them. The best it has is having someone review your changesets _after_ they've been already submitted, when it's too late as the "damage" is done. Start implementing a technical solution to problem, instead of disciplining the ones who are volunteering their time trying to curate your dataset for you.
(Also, if StreetComplete is a repeat offender, start a conversation with its devs instead of reprimanding users.)
Granted, that still doesn't solve the case that you may have no connectivity and are basically forced to upload a big batch later. It annoys me a bit as well.
On the other hand, despite how angry the changeset comments may read, this isn't a big deal. Globe-spanning changesets happen all the time and yes, they do annoy local users trying to keep a watch on what happens, but the history on the OSM site isn't really well-suited for that either. Also, with enough other changes, those large changesets also fall out of the history range fairly quickly, except in places where no one maps anyway.
Then why be angry about it at all? It either is worth gatekeeping about our not, decide.
> Globe-spanning changesets happen all the time
I noticed! But this only makes it worse. That's precisely my point: the requirements are there but can't be enforced and then the matter is addressed with... hostility between contributors? Who's benefiting from this behavior, exactly?
Thanking them and advising is the recommended way to handle this.
Unfortunately, as happens in all large crowdsourced areas, some don't adhere to the recommended ways and "do their own thing", often to the detriment of the project as a whole.
