<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 27 Oct 2016, at 17:24, Donald Noble <<a href="mailto:drnoble@gmail.com" class="">drnoble@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">One or more anonymous users is adding notes to paths in Edinburgh complaining about the quality of the path surface, or localised flooding, e.g. <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/note/761917" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/note/761917</a><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">I contacted the twitter user in the above one from the @OSMScotland account, and he advised that there is a consultation being run in Edinburgh to flag up issues with paths, and it is asking people to add notes to OSM!</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_msg">Link to consultation:</div><div class="gmail_msg"><a href="https://consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/design-cycle-walk-nepn/" class="">https://consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/design-cycle-walk-nepn/</a><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_msg">Part way through the survey the following image is included, </div><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><a href="https://www.snapsurveys.com/wh/k/147645046739/picture2.jpg" class="">https://www.snapsurveys.com/wh/k/147645046739/picture2.jpg</a><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Reading the text in the above screenshot suggests to me, that they are expecting users to send a screenshot with a marker for the map location, and not actually submit the note to OSM. Cyclescape would be a far better tool for this purpose, potentially adding a specific tag to the issues. Cyclescape has various tools specifically for collecting this sort of information.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Shaun</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="gmail_msg">Which is directing people to add notes to the map then send screenshots to <a href="mailto:EdinburghCycling.uki@aecom.com" class="">EdinburghCycling.uki@aecom.com</a>. <br class=""></div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_msg">So from this I suspect the council have commissioned AECOM to carry out the survey, and they have no understanding of how the notes system in OSM works.</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_msg">I have not contacted either the council or AECOM yet, thought I would see what other people's thoughts were.</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_msg">Cheers, Donald </div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class=""></div></div></div>
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