Hi David, I think the idea of crossing off subtasks is a great one. I've been torn on the idea on creating a bunch of tasks for one area. I think some people like to fully complete squares. Others don't of course. I feel for me I'm faster if I can just map everything at once. Others might not be comfortable mapping some types of objects if they don't have experience.
Definitely something I think we should look into when adding new features to the workflow. Best, -Kate On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 8:39 AM, David Schmitt <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2012-01-26 20:50, Pierre GIRAUD wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> In the following document, I put together the most interesting >> feedback comments contributors made about the tasking manager. The >> bolder words are those I paid attention to. >> >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Fogj124ykXWXCcMgMKjMZosquiVzxDe5_pN4Pt7SL8Q/edit >> >> I would sum up things with the following list of feature requests: >> >> - split tasks: >> Many users asked for this feature. It now looks obvious that mapping >> main roads, minor roads or buildings represents a complete different >> work. A job should be separated into different "tasks". Each task >> would be materialized by a type of feature to map as well as a tile >> (or area) size. >> I started to design this new workflow. Please check it out here: >> http://bluecarto.free.fr/hot_ts_wireframe/osmtm_v2.pdf > > > That could really help getting a broader involvement even by people not > willing to do the highest detail level. I'm wondering whether it might be > even better if you could cross off all subtasks you've done on the tile you > were working on? Like Swaziland's country-side has some areas with very few > to none buildings, where you could map everything in a few minutes and mark > off all subtasks with very few clicks, instead of re-taking the tile several > times. This also ties in with the sub-division of tiles and the exclusion of > water areas (which are a pain too). > > >> - help mappers to communicate with each other: >> Would a chat per job (in-the-page as in Facebook) help? > > > I'm myself ain't the big chatter, but this triggered the following train of > thought: > > It'd be great to have an area where mapping standards could be > discussed/defined. It is often hard for an outsider to identify major vs. > minor roads in foreign countries. This could be on the osm-wiki and should > include links to already well-mapped areas and/or identified screenhots of > features on the available aerials from the area. > > Perhaps this should even become an integral part of the task description? A > few well-mapped segments as task-seed could also go a long way towards a > shared understanding of the required/expected/available accuracy and > information density. > > >> - second subdivision (1 tile into a 2x2 grid) for complicated areas: >> I agree that this would be a nice yet useful feature. I think however >> that this it's not easy to develop. I can think a bit more about it if >> you think that this is a must-have. > > > If this is too hard, a "partially done" status for the intense tiles might > be sufficient? This could also tie in in with the subtasks: perhaps insert > "Do X in the NW/NE/SW/SE corner of the tile" as checkable sub-task. > > Another idea here would be to be able to take multiple tiles at a time and > reduce the tile-size further. For example, halve the area of a tile but > allow the "checkout" of 8 tiles at once. That way in the city center you'd > fetch one and be done with it and in the country-side you can fetch > multiples, e.g. along a major road and fix-up that first. > > The annoying aspect - for me - was always the jarring flow breaker of having > to wait until josm (even via remote) has loaded the next tile. If I could go > through and add a bunch of expected sea-tiles in one swoop, download it once > and the check them through for islands and stuff, that would totally go > away, even with substantially smaller tiles. > > >> Thanks for your feedbacks (again). > > > > Thanks for your coding! I'm already looking forward to these changes ;-) > > > > Best Regards, David > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
