On Jun 17, 2010, at 10:28 PM, Ben Last wrote:
> On 18 June 2010 12:19, SteveC <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jun 17, 2010, at 10:11 PM, Ben Last wrote:
> > Generally "hey, my street's not in the right suburb"
> well at least this one is what I want to capture, super simply, and have a
> queue to be fixed. Right now we don't capture it _at all_ and it's a tragedy.
> do you agree?
>
> Well, fixing it isn't trivial, since there may be a bunch of reasons why it's
> wrong (or it may not actually be wrong!). We could store these and forward
> to OSM, but as has been mentioned, we don't want to bounce our users over to
> the OSM site (because we don't want them to have to be registered with OSM)
> and sending such comments programatically is not simple. But I do agree that
> it's valuable feedback if there is the capacity to respond to it.
absolutely agreed - but the first step is to collect it, then we will respond
to it (I volunteer!)
We can't start arse backward and have a response mechanism and then start
collecting it, that makes no sense.
> > , or "hey, why isn't my street shown?", or "How come your address search
> doesn't find my house by number?"
> these ones can be at least helpful tertiary to the above, but step one is the
> above.
>
> Actually, I think it's the other way around. The biggest issue with OSM for
> the use cases that concern me right now is that its usability to locate an
> address is pretty limited. Improving that is the single thing ("step one")
> that would make it better (again, for my use cases). So having streets with
> correct names and at least some numbering data helps a lot.
Oh I agree but what I'm saying is that the above case is immediately fixable
whereas the latter cases are implicitly fixable, with some more unknown work.
See what I mean?
>
> Cheers
> b
>
> --
> Ben Last
> Development Manager (HyperWeb)
> NearMap Pty Ltd
>
Steve
stevecoast.com
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