Can we vent here?

[fhdogs]

If not I understand, and this topic can be scrapped, but can somebody please explain to me why capitalization and punctuation mean nothing anymore?

I've only been reviewing edits here and there for a couple of weeks, but I can't believe how often people don't follow standard grammar. I've been skipping them because most are places edits, but I'm going to go on a denial craze soon and become the strict guy nobody want to review their edits.

Now I know I don't have the best writing abilities, and I too make mistakes, but sometimes it's pretty clear people are just too lazy to press the shift button at the beginning of proper nouns.

(Sorry I'll step down from my soapbox)

[DdDave]

Sometimes is people being lazy, and other times it's just people screwing around and not caring.  Because it's so easy to edit, there are so many people that draw random lines, polygons, or create duplicates of an existing "mcdonald" restaurant just to see how Map Maker works.  We end up putting in a request to undo, and then having to come back later after the person ignores the request and start with the denials.

I think there should be a small on-line course that you have to take to get your Map Maker license.  At least that would rule out the serious mappers from the people messing around.  That combined with disabling edits from Maps and Places would make the reviewing process much easier.  I would rather have 10 good edits and no crap then get 15 good edits along with 30 garbage ones.

And don't even get any of us started on bots.....

<hands soapbox back to fhdogs>

[zxrayz]

Bring on the MapMaker license test. I am all for it.  Yes, and kill the stupid Maps additions.  No data is better than bad data.

And what is up with the users that cannot trace a line? Not even a straight line!  Seriously.  Time to send some people back to kindergarden. 

(who wants the soapbox next?)

[fhdogs]

Oh boy... what did I start? I'll take the test though!

(Next?)

[Drix]

How about that long-awaited sandbox hmm?

[zxrayz]

We can't play in the sandbox. That's where google is hiding all the missing categories and the items we can no long find on the map.

[fhdogs]

Ahhh thats where my New England Electric Grid Project is hiding out!

[Geoffrey Perez]

Ahhh, that's where the rendered ETAs on regular Google Maps are hiding out!

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[R01k]

I use to edit in Spanish speaker countries. In that case, I have two problems: Capitalization and accents ('). Most of the new mappers (and others not so new) don't pay any attention at any, specially at accents. Sometimes the accent can change the meaning of a word in Spanish (Término = limit, end; Termino = I finish).

[fhdogs]

So frustrating! 

[fhdogs]

Ok you can all call this one nitpicking, but if I create a subscription for Vermont, please don't feed me with New Hempshire and Maine edits to review.  

[Flash]

Back to your original complaint; it seems to be a age related thing.  Not to say all "youngsters" have poor grammar; but the people that do write that way do tend to be young, the "texting" generation if you will.  My previous job was at a major call centre, and I would end up reading the notes in the system from several hundred people when serious cases were escalated to me.  Poor grammar and capitalization was almost always from someone of the average age of 20.  The worst, in my opinion, is when they couldn't be bothered to capitalize anything in an address.  When we were speaking to someone for the first time at a location, we would create a new client record with their name, company name, street #, street name, etc.  After troubleshooting, the agent might promise to send a part.  I would mark over and state "No one at the parts warehouse retypes what you have already entered, the shipping label to this Fortune 500 company is being printed in all small letters with obvious spelling mistakes.  How would you feel if you were our client and saw that?"  It was a stupid way to phrase it, because they always came back with "I wouldn't care."  The issue basically comes down to not understanding the difference in how you talk to your friends and how you talk to a stranger or someone important.

[DdDave]

I figured they would respond "i woodnt care"