That's a definite usability issue in their application (to say nothing of an annoyance to OSM mappers downstream). Is it possible to raise it with them as a bug?
Regards, *Paul* On 19 December 2016 at 13:28, Philip Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2016-12-09 at 12:54 +0000, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: > > On 9 December 2016 at 11:49, Dave F <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Peter%20Mount/notes > > > > > > They are all for the same entity. > > > > > > How can we stop this annoying repetition? Can it be blocked at > > > OSM's end, > > > contact individual users or, better still, get it blocked at > > > source? Does > > > anyone have a contact at Map.me? > > > > I wonder if this could be down to a simple misunderstanding of the > > Map.me UI. As far as the user is concerned he's stated that an object > > on the map no longer exists. He may not be aware this his action is > > adding a note rather than deleting the object immediately. So when > > the > > object stays on the map, he assumes his action has failed for > > technical reasons, and so tries again. > > > I found out for my self that duplicate notes are easy to create on > Saturday. I was in Bridgnorth for a few beers with my mate, and before > that had had a walk around doing some mapping. > > I managed to create 4 notes instead of one due to the interface. > Initially I had wanted to add a category to a building, in this case a > theatre. Maps.me didn't allow that so I added a note. > > Touching the tick had apparently no effect (no animation or screen > change), so I assumed it hadn't registered and tried again. It was only > when I looked at the IRC channel and saw the 4 notes I realised what I > had done. > > Phil (trigpoint) > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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