I am pretty sure some people at University of Heidelberg - Disaster Mappers - Missing Maps put some serious thoughts on the topic of tile sizes and general procedures.
Maybe you reach out and see what they can share. - althio On 5 March 2016 at 19:23, Russell Deffner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dan, yeah – I’ve been talking with folks and watching the ‘success rate’ > of all the front page projects and to add some commentary – it does seem > there is a ‘magic size’ for people to both feel like they’re getting stuff > done and a fine balance of not too big for validators to easily go-for, but > not so small that you are spending more time locking/pushing validate then > looking at tiles. > > > > It seems like roughly 1 kilometer square tiles for urban areas and 2-4 km^2 > for rural seems to be that magic size, I see those size projects going like > hot-cakes. Apologies for a few of those recent Fiji projects – where it got > a little more dense and the island narrowed/got a little funky for ‘chopping > into projects’ I was actually more thinking about number of tiles as the > projects beforehand seemed to be ‘magic numbered’ from about 200-300 tiles > on creation. So, anyway – thanks for the feedback, this is where project > creation becomes a bit more ‘art’ as you can’t just tell the TM to ‘make as > many squares necessary to be 1 km^2’ (which to any devs out there, would be > nice feature :) > > > > More Fiji stuff coming, just been busy the last couple of days (and trying > to knock out validation on the last couple); > > =Russ > > > > From: Daniel Specht [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, March 04, 2016 7:48 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [HOT] small tiles > > > > The tile size used for the Fiji projects is great for residential areas. > It's a lot more rewarding to be able to check off so many as done. If the > tiles were much bigger people would get discouraged or sloppy. > > > > But outside the residential areas there are a lot of tiles with no features, > which wastes time loading tiles. I think the solution is to have bigger > tiles, maybe twice the length, and to split the tiles which are in > residential areas into 4 parts. > > > > -- > > Dan > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
