> Craigslist had added a feature to their OSM powered maps to submit map problems back to OSM
Have you found that feature actually on craigslist? On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:25 PM, Toby Murray <toby.mur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > As I'm sure a lot of you are aware, osm.org has a new "notes" [1] feature > (new as of a month ago) that allows anonymous users to submit random > comments about our maps. > > Some of them will of course be unhelpful or silly but there have been many > useful ones submitted since the feature went live. We actually have a bot > in the #osm-us IRC channel that announces whenever a new note is posted > anywhere in the US. > > Recently I noticed a pattern on some of the notes and guessed (correctly > as it turns out) that Craigslist had added a feature to their OSM powered > maps to submit map problems back to OSM. At first things were a little > chaotic and we were getting notes about Craigslist page layout problems and > such. But they have tweaked some things and the reports coming in now have > a better signal-to-noise ratio. There does still seem to be a fairly common > problem of people reporting geocoding related problems that don't affect > OSM data. These usually say something about a city name being displayed > incorrectly when osm.org either has the correct city name or there isn't > a city label nearby. Not quite sure what is happening there. > > You can tell a Craigslist note by the fact that they start with the text > "bounds:" followed by a pair of coordinates. This indicates the map view > that the user was looking at when the note was submitted. As of a few hours > ago they are also adding a URL that will open the map with a box on it to > graphically display this bounds information. This is just useful to see if > they were zoomed in really close or looking at a whole region. I think this > might be the first example of a bug sumitted after this was added: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?note=5245 > > But Craigslist isn't the only source of new notes and there are a lot of > them waiting for resolution. So please, if you haven't taken a look > recently, check the "Notes" box on the layer chooser on osm.org and see > if there is anything near you that needs some attention. They should start > showing up at zoom level 8 or 9, depending on the size of your browser > window (the query is limited by geographic area, not by zoom level) Even if > the note itself isn't entirely clear on what is wrong, a quick look at the > area in an editor may well point out missing roads or crazy TIGER problems > that might be easy to fix. > > If stats are your thing, Pascal Neis has made some notes statistics that > are updated every hour: http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-notes > > Keep in mind that not all notes are submitted by anonymous users and if > you comment on a note that was submitted by an OSM user, they will be > notified of your response. This allows for some discussion of the issue if > need be. > > [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Notes > > Toby > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > >
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