Simon Poole: >> how can the new contributor wishing to add an address find this tool?
> That doesn't make the slightest difference, because the only people > adding addresses in any meaningful way are those 1% of contributors. it's the problem of the egg and the chicken : if effective tools were accessible to 2% 3% 10% of contributors, then the speed would be multiplied by 2, 3 or 10 A more effective contribution would be to consider 3 types of location/contributor: - those where the opendata is of quality: we should talk about import - those where the opendata exists but where the import has not been accepted and/or not yet done and/or new address exist: the "normal" contributor (99%) should be able to easily access the opendata in an editor and validate in one click if it is correct. or correct the position easily. osmose opendata-fork allow that but it'sn't a editor that newbies find when surfing on osm.org. and only a very few location are listed for addr. - those where the opendata does not exist: a drop-down list to avoid having to rewrite the street name is a minimum. It also avoid typo and letter case. Thinking about the time spent on the addresses I added, I think I could have been much more efficient for both those added by survey and those from opendata. so by spending the same amount of time on it, I could have added a lot more. And it would have been much more motivating to do it often. Regards, Marc _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
