On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 6:06 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> creating competition in this way can be disruptive to the community, >> by encouraging people to work in isolation, amongst other things >> > > Would an approach be to get a community of people working on a particular > area and highlight the improvement made as a result? > > For example there has been talk on talk-ca of tagging bus-stops in 3 > Canadian cities, is there (could there be) a prize for being the 1st one > 100% tagging?
The prize is better data. And the joy of good work well done. Offering prizes beyond recognition of excellent work [1] is a bad idea. If you reward trivial submissions, you get more trivial submissions. Let's forget the prizes for now, even if they could some how be turned into a positive. What about the mechanism? How do we create a super easy way for folks with focused interests to participate in OSM? Say a super postbox click-adder. How does that work? Does the data get submitted automatically to the API, and under which user id? Or should new postboxes be confirmed by a user from another IP address first? How do we make it super easy to have multi-linguists translate our countries, states and cities? This goes part way and shows which countries are translated in which languages. http://toolserver.org/~mazder/multilingual-country-list/ But each addition requires a session in JOSM or Potlatch. Can we make it easier with an editor / interface that works only with a single tag? The super amazing OSM Quick Check wants to fix your dead end streets. The prototype creates a simple interface to work on a single issue, dead end roads. http://vatavia.net/mark/osmqc/CheckEnds.html Can that idea be extended, use a check and recheck crowd strategy and improve our data in an organized and useful way? [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lolcat_of_awesomeness _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
