What happens to the 'flag as remapped' or 'yes, i remapped' input by users? Do you store the responses?
On Sep 3, 2012, at 2:34 PM, Martijn van Exel <m...@rtijn.org> wrote: > Hi Alex, > > I am kind of learning this web stuff as I go along, so I didn't really > think of monitoring usage. I did install awstats on my server just now > which tells me I have ~350 page views on the remap page. This page > would only be loaded once per session though, as all the rest is AJAX > stuff. The number of requests on the geoJSON service that gets a new > non-remapped way geometry is ~2700. This is starting yesterday at 8AM > Mountain Time. I don't know how to get awstats to parse older log > files (apache rolls them over every day I think). > > Martijn > > On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Alex Barth <a...@mapbox.com> wrote: >> Martijn - >> >> Again, fantastic stuff. I'm hooked. >> >> Do you have any stats on the tool's usage that you can publish? >> >> On Aug 31, 2012, at 11:17 PM, Martijn van Exel <m...@rtijn.org> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I want to add The Remap-A-Tron to the ever growing list of tools >>> designed to support the ongoing remapping effort. >>> >>> http://lima.schaaltreinen.nl/remap/ >>> >>> Although this tool currently only covers the US, it would be >>> relatively straightforward (given proper server resources) to deploy >>> it for other regions or even worldwide, which is why I include talk@ >>> as well. >>> >>> What it does is pretty straightforward - at least for the user. It >>> serves up a Mapnik map with an overlay showing one redaction-deleted >>> major road (motorway - tertiary). By looking at the Mapnik map you >>> should be able to quickly determine whether that way has already been >>> remapped. If it is, hit the 'flag as remapped' button and you're on to >>> the next deleted way. If it isn't, you can either remap it straight >>> away - there's links for JOSM as well as Potlatch - or skip it and >>> leave it for someone else. There's buttons as well as shortcut keys to >>> make cycling through the deleted ways as efficient as possible. >>> >>> The selection of deleted ways is pseudo-random so you might find >>> yourself looking at the same way twice in one session. >>> >>> But wait - all deleted ways? Aren't many of them already remapped? >>> Yes, they are. This is where my Fairy Dust alogorithm comes in. It >>> detects with some accuracy if a way has already been remapped so you >>> should see mostly non-remapped ways. If enough people (currently 3) >>> agree that a way has already been remapped, it won't show up again. >>> >>> Some more background on this tool is here - >>> https://oegeo.wordpress.com/2012/08/29/remapathon/ >>> >>> In the two days since I first soft-launched this through my blog, IRC >>> and twitter, the number of non-remapped major class ways in the US has >>> gone down from 1863 to 1692, and my hope is to get that number down to >>> zero in a number of days. If and when that happens, I can easily tweak >>> the tool to include non-major roads (there are some 15K of those not >>> remapped in the US alone, or so Fairy Dust tells me). The tool can >>> also be repurposed for other (re-)mapping tasks altogether - let me >>> know your ideas. >>> >>> Let me know if it's useful / how it can be improved. The code will be >>> on github soon but I can tell you now it's not very pretty. >>> -- >>> martijn van exel >>> http://oegeo.wordpress.com >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> talk mailing list >>> talk@openstreetmap.org >>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> >> Alex Barth >> http://twitter.com/lxbarth >> tel (+1) 202 250 3633 >> >> >> >> > > > > -- > martijn van exel > http://oegeo.wordpress.com Alex Barth http://twitter.com/lxbarth tel (+1) 202 250 3633 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
