Oh, great re swimming pools - solar detection is another one on my list to have a go at.<p>I feel like a lot of the pushback here is an idea that OSM can grow from hand mapping; but as someone with 60k changesets over a decade... no amount of human volunteer enthusiasm is to the point that it can "solve" mapping at a global scale to the standards that make the map data overwhelmingly useful.<p>I feel we need a scalable framework for importing and maintaining data: ways to annotate the quality, sources, where to report bugs in the data source, and guidance to consumers.
Ie if I want to query "businesses of type X" "mapped by humans within the last year", I can sort of do that with "check date".<p>But who knows how many of those attributes are accurate, or if the mapper who checked only checked one aspect (name/location)? Would it be better to ingest alltheplaces opening hours to maintain this data automatically, every month?<p>Would it be better as a data consumer if I could filter to only certain sources I trust?
Or I could use data - even if the polygons aren't perfect or similar, even with known limitations like "poi inferred by AI".