Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > For example, RU community wants to convert amenity=sanatorium > -> leisure=resort + resort=sanatorium. Clicking on a dot shows a > popup with the suggested edit. If you think the edit is correct, simply > click Save.
I've been a bit loth to get involved with this one but I do share the general worry. Editor authors have a general responsibility to encourage good editing behaviour in their UI design. It isn't quite as simple as "every tool can be used for good and bad things": the developer should design the tool to encourage the good and discourage (or prevent) the bad. The developers of JOSM and, particularly, iD have long been exemplary in this regard. This new tool can certainly be used for good, and there are use cases for which it is ideal, but it's also very easy to misuse. My biggest concern is that since it's decoupled from an editing environment, the natural tendency is just to click 'Change', 'Change', 'Change' rather than reviewing and manually making the changes. (We've seen this behaviour in several "challenges" in the past, such as the dupe nodes drive.) OSM is a collection of human knowledge; this workflow goes too far in removing the human from the equation. As an alternative, could I encourage you to look at something tentative I did the other year for that relic of an editor, Potlatch 2? https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Richard/diary/28267 This allows a user to navigate instantly between instances of a "challenge" within the editor, while benefiting from an external data source to define that challenge. The P2 implementation is fairly simple (there's no "Resolved" button to feed back to that external source, for example) but demonstrates the concept. If you were to build something along these lines into JOSM or iD, following the traditional MapRoulette-like approach of asking users to make the change rather than automating it, I think you'd get the benefits you're seeking to achieve without the potential damage. Richard -- Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/General-Discussion-f5171242.html _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
