<div dir="ltr">Honestly I wasn't thinking about organizing your work with this tasking manager :)<div>If you enjoy your heavy surveying or your efficient imports, I absolutely agree there is no extra value in a tasking manager. <br><div>I'm more interested in tools that help finding new mappers, help them on their first steps and hopefully turn a few of them into mappers as crazy as you guys.</div><div><br></div><div>Here's how I'm using it myself in the example task:</div><div>- map those roads that are present in Wegenregister and clearly missing in OSM</div><div>- make fixme notes for cases where it isn't quite clear</div><div>- When this is done, I mark the task as "ready". Then I load the data to my Osmand, and go for a walk where I check some fixme's in the field (there's a layer for that in Osmand). </div><div>- When the findings are incorporated into the data, I can finally "validate" the tile.<br></div><div><br></div><div>This is useful to me because it allows me to keep focused on the task at hand (I've been known to wander), make sure I cover the entire territory and go out surveying efficiently (I don't really go out surveying, I walk the dog in areas where I haven't been yet). And Wegspotter mapped a few squares yesterday, so now I can skip straight to the dog-walking part in that area.</div><div><br></div><div>In other tasks, this flow could be entirely different. For the "shops with mapillary in Brussels" example, you could easily have a flow where beginners do the labour of translating mapillary images into shops. The validation would then be to check the tagging and mark spots where the imagery wasn't complete enough. A last surveying phase would be to grab a mobile editor and add those last shops. But that would then be possible on a quick walk - you wouldn't have to be using the clumsy mobile editor or walking paper all the time. A lot of people are turned off by surveying because you're collecting so much data that the mapping afterwards takes way too long. In this little idea, you could map in the field without freezing to death.</div><div><br></div><div>On a technical note: you don't have to use squares. You can also upload a custom task division. For city mapping, neighborhoods would be perfect. For Missing Maps Wallonia, it could be "residential areas without buildings". For a GRB import, it could be tiny tiny squares, or a custom division of Flanders into areas with similar numbers of buildings.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Joost @</div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/joost%20schouppe/" target="_blank">Openstreetmap</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/joostjakob" target="_blank">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pub/joost-schouppe/48/939/603" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a> | <a href="http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/members/97979802/" target="_blank">Meetup</a></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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