Thanks for sharing this, I think other communities may feel reflected with the problems you are currently trying to solve.
@mikko_tamura and @RAytoun might be able to provide some ideas based on their experiences with both local communities in the Asian region and issues around validation and data quality that I see listed in your proposal.
In my experience, my mental model to tackle these kind of issues is:
- Deeply understand the problems that need to be solved and why they are really problems.
- List how do the community would like to see the dynamics in an ideal future.
- Come up with some assumptions on what can be done to walk into that direction.
- Quickly test the assumptions (1-2 months max) to understand if they are being helpful.
- Evaluate what happened after the testing, what worked, what didn’t and iterate.
In my opinion, the base OSM etiquette guidelines provide a really good start around framing discussions. They can be tested in a community during some time and observe what else is needed.
Cheers.