I spent a long time mapping Padang before the visible boundaries appeared. I would often go outside the bounds of the area, with the hope that this would benefit the next person.
Let's not place too much effort on rankings, but working as a team to get these areas mapped. (Why are there rankings?) On 18 February 2012 09:21, Harry Wood <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes maybe sometimes people forget to mark their task as done, or they forget > which square they had been working on. I think probably people are also > sometimes timid about marking a task as done, in case it's not really > finished yet, or they've done it wrong. > > Similarly when a job is first set up, there's may be squares which are done > already or which can be very quickly and easily done. For Samoa we had an > overview "just the major roads" job, and I don't know if the major roads > were done extremely quickly during the exercise, or if they were actually > all already in place, but clearly the tasks were *all* done (in accordance > with the definition of the job, which was to map the major roads) when I > came to look at them later on, and yet very few squares were marked as such. > > I think in both cases we need to be bold. The task manager isn't going to > be useful if we don't mark squares as done when they are done. So if you're > looking for you next mapping square and find you've had your time wasted > because you're on a square which is already finished... mark it as done. > > The problem is that we don't get such a useful audit of who did what. We > can try to fix that a bit. I think probably the system needs to prompt > people to mark their square as done if they forget e.g. by email. And of > course there's the problem of people scoring massively because they mapped > all the ocean tiles (I'm good at that one!) > > I think at the moment we should accept that the tool is not so useful for > keeping scores, but is already very useful for directing people where to > map, and that's the main thing. So the answer is "be bold". Mark the tasks > as done! You can also add a comment e.g. "somebody else has done this one" > > We're inventing the etiquette as we go along here though. It's all new. > > Harry > > ________________________________ > From: Michael Krämer <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, 17 February 2012, 19:04 > Subject: [HOT] Question regarding tasking manager "etiquette" > > Hello, > > as I have previsously done some armchair mapping I recently decided to > direct some of my mapping energy to help mapping Padang. Doing this using > the tasking manager works perfectly for me. That's really a decent tool to > work with. > > After mapping a number of squares I came across a few which were already > completely mapped. So I struggled what to do with those - mark as done or > not? > > I assume marking as done would overall help the project. But on the other > hand it also a bit of taking credits for somebody else's efforts. > > Any thoughts? > > Regards, > Michael > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
