We don't need anonymous notes

[Mateusz_Konieczny]

@TrickyFoxy

Can be used on other sites without registration, such as onosm.org .

in my experience this is rather negative - notes about missing shops are

• either OK in quality but pointless: our limitation on POI data is collection, not being aware of missing POIs. I could easily map 20 POIs or more by taking one hour walk. Or crawling through recent street-level imagery on compatible license (Bing Streetside/Mapillary/Kartaview, I think). Notes about POIs are not helping with that.
• or misleading and confused - so not only it is about what we know to be missing, but it is also wasting time as note is misplaced or about online only shop so time is wasted on handling useless note
• in extreme cases like Iran someone basically killed note feature by producing massive volume of them (see area around Note: 3933081 | OpenStreetMap or other cities in Iran ) blotting out all other notes

But as

@Minh_Nguyen

. Personally, I’ve been satisfied with notes I’ve seen coming from onosm.org, but I’ve also heard from other mappers who have had less positive experiences. Access to street-level imagery makes it much, much easier to corroborate the leads in notes.

mentions other people had much better experience with onosm.org notes.