Thanks Mike! *Tyler Radford* Executive Director [email protected] @TylerSRadford
*Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team* *Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development* web <http://hotosm.org/> | twitter <https://twitter.com/hotosm> | facebook <https://www.facebook.com/hotosm> | donate <http://hotosm.org/donate> On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 4:41 PM, Mike Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > Tyler, > > I just log my ideas/suggestions on github. > > Mike > > On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Tyler Radford <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Phil, Robert, John, Mike, others have come up with some really great >> ideas pertaining to Tasking Manager improvements. >> >> Please log them or add to already existing requests here so we don't lose >> them! https://github.com/hotosm/osm-tasking-manager2/issues >> >> One of the big visions for the future Tasking Manager is to better guides >> mappers having the right skills to the right job. >> >> Thanks for all the thoughtful and creative ideas. >> >> *Tyler Radford* >> Executive Director >> [email protected] >> @TylerSRadford >> >> *Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team* >> *Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development* >> web <http://hotosm.org/> | twitter <https://twitter.com/hotosm> | >> facebook <https://www.facebook.com/hotosm> | donate >> <http://hotosm.org/donate> >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 1:32 PM, Autre Planete <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Thanks , Listened to you,Mike Thompson! >>> >>> On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 9:13 PM, Mike Thompson <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Two situations that a new mapper may face: >>>> 1) Task area with nothing, or very little, mapped. >>>> This *should* be pretty easy. For example, in the case of buildings: >>>> draw building, square it, tag it as a building, don't draw two buildings >>>> over lapping each other. However, despite verbal instruction, >>>> demonstrations, and written instructions, many get it wrong. My conclusion >>>> is human learning is more complex than many of us assume (hence the need >>>> for professional educators in our society). We may need to adjust our >>>> training (both online and in person) to be more effective. Just providing >>>> the information is not enough. >>>> >>>> 2) Task area has already been partially mapped, either outside of the >>>> tasking manager, as part of a previous project, or as part of the current >>>> project where another mapper didn't finish. >>>> Essentially we are asking the mapper in question to be a validator, >>>> because we expect that when he or she marks the task as done, they are >>>> saying that all of the mapping is done according to the instructions, not >>>> just the mapping he or she did. This can be very difficult for a new >>>> mapper, especially without the tools in JOSM. For example, if the >>>> instructions call for buildings to be square, they have to pan the entire >>>> task looking for buildings where is in JOSM, I put all buildings into the >>>> to do list and step through them (I could also search for ways tagged as >>>> buildings with less than a certain number of nodes and square them all at >>>> once). >>>> >>>> Ideas: >>>> * Have the tasking manager require a mapper to open (no way of knowing >>>> if they actually read them) their messages before they can do checkout >>>> another tasks. >>>> * Have tasking manager forward messages to mapper's email account. >>>> * Require that a mapper at least visits the "instructions" tab before >>>> checking out a task. >>>> * Enhance project instructions to cover "edge cases". For example, >>>> should buildings under construction be mapped? Should existing features be >>>> spatially adjusted to the preferred imagery source, or should the imagery >>>> be adjusted to them? >>>> * Enhance project instructions to have links to examples (some of the >>>> Africa projects already do this). "Not sure what a building under >>>> construction looks like? Click here for some examples." "Not sure how to >>>> adjust imagery offset in iD? Click here for instructions." >>>> * Mapathons should not be held without experienced mappers present who >>>> are willing to spend the entire event going from person to person to check >>>> on their work and answer any questions. We need many different people to >>>> make this work, and if someone just wants to be an organizer that is great, >>>> but they should ensure experienced mappers are in attendance. >>>> * Some sort of online way to quickly give feedback as soon as a save is >>>> made such that it is not necessary to wait until a task is marked as done. >>>> >>>> Mike >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> HOT mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >>> >>> >> >
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