More (automatic) details in the notes could be useful. For example: add the heading (something like N, NW, etc)... Also make sure you're creating the note at the earliest position and not when the report is saved/confirmed.
Have you considered sharing GPS traces ? This would be another major datafeed to improve OSM data quality... 2014-08-19 16:47 GMT+02:00 <[email protected]>: > Hi Eric > Thanks for your comments, I have been having a play with wisepilot and do > quite like it. > > Pleased to see you are addressing the issues we have pointed out. > > I did find the login to osm after i used it, but used with care I found it > excellent. It was a quiet time so I was able to stop where the limits > changed and was then able to use the notes to indicate the points to split > the ways. > > The fact I then used them helped, not so easy if it had been someone else. > > Thanks > Phil (trigpoint ) > > On Tue Aug 19 2014 13:58:06 GMT+0100 (BST), Erik Mattsson wrote: > > Hi my name is Erik and I work as a developer at Appello that owns the > Wisepilot application. In our latest release (5.1) we've included a first > iteration for a report component with the intention to make it easier for > our users to report map issues in OSM. Unfortunately the release for > version 5.1 was pushed hard to be ready before the summer vacations which > led to us not having much personnel here monitoring the feedback we got > during the summer vacations. I'm very sorry we didn't get on the issues > you've discussed in this thread earlier. > > > > Our intention with this report component is to try to increase the > quality of the navigation data in OSM by making it easier for our users to > report issues they see while driving. We've got quite a big chunk of users > that aren't that "tech savvy" so we want to make it easy for these users to > contribute to the map quality while using the application normally. These > are users that feel that it's too big a step to go to the OSM page and edit > the data directly. This was our first iteration and apparently we have > quite a lot of issues to address here. > > > > All map notes users send go through our server to OSM and a copy is > saved in our database so we can track the usage internally. We currently > allow anonymous posting but since it seems like too many "spam" posts gets > created we will try to impose limits that encourages users to register at > OSM more. Users can sign in to OSM in the application and if they do the > notes are posted as their account. We are working towards increasing the > quality of the reports and any feedback from the community is very welcome. > > > > We switched from commercial map data to OSM quite recently(Feb - March) > and since the switch we've been working on improving the OSM functionality > in our application. This component is just one part of that. > > > > I've tried to read through most of the comments here and have made two > small fixes that will be rolled out on our servers later today. Those are > to block reports with 0 as speed and that we add a signature stating that > the report was sent through us. In the short term we will try to make > client changes that enforce some basic spam preventing rules and provides > the users with more information about what happens with their reports. We > will also look over the imperial/metric situation. As it is now we use the > same system as the user does within the application and we did the > assumption that users that drives in a country with imperial system also > have the client set to imperial. In a lot of cases this doesn't seem to be > the case though, so this needs to be addressed. > > > > Please feel free to contact me or [email protected] (or here on > OSM-talk) with feedback or questions about this component or the > application in general. We do not want to create a lot of garbage reports > that just ends up cluttering the database and never gets resolved, that's > not beneficial for anyone. > > > > > > Best regards, > > -- > > Erik Mattsson > > Software Engineer > > > > Location: Appello | Göteborg | Sweden > > Phone: +4673-636 10 68 > > Mail: [email protected] > > Web: www.appello.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > > -- > Sent from my Jolla > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- Christian Quest - OpenStreetMap France
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