Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] OSM User Testing

2010-09-30 Thread SteveC
On Sep 29, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 15:34, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Those people fill out a form and are invited later to use some simple online screen capturing software while asked to do some simple tasks and this is where you come

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] OSM User Testing

2010-09-30 Thread SteveC
On Sep 30, 2010, at 10:40 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 16:20, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Sep 29, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 15:34, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Those people fill out a form and are

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] OSM User Testing

2010-09-30 Thread Peter Batty
I think it's great that something is being done on this. Personally I would suggest finding a few volunteers to be tested and sit in a room with them. You don't need a lot of people to find the key issues and I think you get more from seeing them do it in person and having them think out loud

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] OSM User Testing

2010-09-30 Thread Peter Batty
Will see what I can do, though not quite sure if I'll be able to make it to SF or not. But would be happy to find some volunteers and do a few usability tests in Denver before then, and record them so others can see them (in SF or wherever). Obviously would be good to have some scenarios worked

Re: [Talk-us] tagging a national forest boundary

2010-09-30 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: I'm importing the USFS data for the Ocala National Forest boundary. There's the actual forest boundary, and there are private inholdings inside the

Re: [Talk-us] tagging a national forest boundary

2010-09-30 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: I'm importing the USFS data for the Ocala National Forest boundary.

Re: [Talk-us] tagging a national forest boundary

2010-09-30 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think you should imply that there is a natural=forest boundary logically separate from the National Forest's boundary. Assuming you're using USFS's shapefiles, there should be one thing in there: the boundary of the

Re: [Talk-us] tagging a national forest boundary

2010-09-30 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think you should imply that there is a natural=forest boundary logically separate from the National Forest's boundary. Assuming you're

Re: [Talk-us] tagging a national forest boundary

2010-09-30 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the example. I would suggest using a border/boundary tag for the national forest boundary area and a landuse tag for the national forest land. Yes, that's what I was thinking: boundary=protected_area for the outer

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] OSM User Testing

2010-09-30 Thread Leslie Zolman
Peter, If you are able to do some tests in Denver I would like to help. Leslie From: Peter Batty pe...@ebatty.com To: SteveC st...@asklater.com Cc: OSM-talk Openstreetmap t...@openstreetmap.org; Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com;

Re: [Talk-us] tagging a national forest boundary

2010-09-30 Thread Greg Troxel
Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: I'm importing the USFS data for the Ocala National Forest boundary. There's the actual forest

Re: [Talk-us] tagging a national forest boundary

2010-09-30 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote: I think you two might be talking past each other. I am slightly fuzzy on multipolygons, but I think the notion is that a multipolygon has a number of outer rings, and a number of inner rings, and it defines the area that