Hi Eric Thanks for your comments, I have been having a play with wisepilot and do quite like it.
Pleased to see you are addressing the issues we have pointed out. I did find the login to osm after i used it, but used with care I found it excellent. It was a quiet time so I was able to stop where the limits changed and was then able to use the notes to indicate the points to split the ways. The fact I then used them helped, not so easy if it had been someone else. Thanks Phil (trigpoint ) On Tue Aug 19 2014 13:58:06 GMT+0100 (BST), Erik Mattsson wrote: > Hi my name is Erik and I work as a developer at Appello that owns the > Wisepilot application. In our latest release (5.1) we've included a first > iteration for a report component with the intention to make it easier for our > users to report map issues in OSM. Unfortunately the release for version 5.1 > was pushed hard to be ready before the summer vacations which led to us not > having much personnel here monitoring the feedback we got during the summer > vacations. I'm very sorry we didn't get on the issues you've discussed in > this thread earlier. > > Our intention with this report component is to try to increase the quality of > the navigation data in OSM by making it easier for our users to report issues > they see while driving. We've got quite a big chunk of users that aren't that > "tech savvy" so we want to make it easy for these users to contribute to the > map quality while using the application normally. These are users that feel > that it's too big a step to go to the OSM page and edit the data directly. > This was our first iteration and apparently we have quite a lot of issues to > address here. > > All map notes users send go through our server to OSM and a copy is saved in > our database so we can track the usage internally. We currently allow > anonymous posting but since it seems like too many "spam" posts gets created > we will try to impose limits that encourages users to register at OSM more. > Users can sign in to OSM in the application and if they do the notes are > posted as their account. We are working towards increasing the quality of the > reports and any feedback from the community is very welcome. > > We switched from commercial map data to OSM quite recently(Feb - March) and > since the switch we've been working on improving the OSM functionality in our > application. This component is just one part of that. > > I've tried to read through most of the comments here and have made two small > fixes that will be rolled out on our servers later today. Those are to block > reports with 0 as speed and that we add a signature stating that the report > was sent through us. In the short term we will try to make client changes > that enforce some basic spam preventing rules and provides the users with > more information about what happens with their reports. We will also look > over the imperial/metric situation. As it is now we use the same system as > the user does within the application and we did the assumption that users > that drives in a country with imperial system also have the client set to > imperial. In a lot of cases this doesn't seem to be the case though, so this > needs to be addressed. > > Please feel free to contact me or supp...@appello.com (or here on OSM-talk) > with feedback or questions about this component or the application in > general. We do not want to create a lot of garbage reports that just ends up > cluttering the database and never gets resolved, that's not beneficial for > anyone. > > > Best regards, > -- > Erik Mattsson > Software Engineer > > Location: Appello | Göteborg | Sweden > Phone: +4673-636 10 68 > Mail: erik.matts...@appello.com > Web: www.appello.com > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- Sent from my Jolla _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
