[HOT] [RFC] suggestions for HOT work

[clara]

Hi,

If a coordinator could highlight important tiles than that would be
quite useful for people like me who come and pick a tile - while being
very flexible.

Letting people choose randomly which square they pick or in which
order they want to do things makes it also much easier to start
mapping - especially if the information in the workflow is quite clear.

Personally, I pick different tiles depending on the amount of time I
have. And I've done tiles where I've done a lot but then didn't set
them as "ready" because there was something in there where I was
unsure about. With a fixed order I might have abandoned them earlier.

And while I can understand the idea of an automated system: It does
feel different if I assume that somebody took a decision which areas
have a priority. It means I'm reacting to somebody's request for -
targeted - help, not to an automated system.

Just my two cents as somebody who ever so often just picks a square to
map...

greetings
clara

On 13/08/12 18:46, Pierre Béland wrote:
> There are various ways that could contribute to map more rapidly
> some areas. The map could be thought to show the Imagery (what is
> to be mapped) and the OSM layer (what has been done so far).
> 
> 
> For example, if the Satellite Imagery was added as one of the
> background layers in the Task manager map, the mappers could
> examine rapidly and focus on specific zones like the housing areas.
> It would be possible to compare rapidly the Imagery and OSM data if
> it was possible to show a transparent OSM layer over the Imagery
> layer.
> 
> 
> We could also think of the possibility for the coordinator to
> highlight some square tasks to be treated in priority. These
> squares could be showed with a different color (yellow for
> example).
> 
> 
> 
> Pierre
> 
> Oleksij Rempel <bug-track at fisher-privat.net> wrote Hallo all,
>> 
>> i have some suggestions and questions (comments are welcome):
>> 
>> - not always HOT has same kind of event, but it seems like many
>> event have epicenteric character. For example earthquakes - we
>> have big todo filed and different levels of damage. It will make
>> sense if HOT website will allow to mark epicenter and manage
>> tasks from it. It should be visible so you can decide by your
>> self what to take, and if you press "take a task" button, you
>> will get nearest one to epicenter.
>> 
>> - in many cases we need as match information as possible, but
>> since we have not time, first thing todo are roads, power lines
>> and residential areas. I think it will help to concentrate and
>> coordinate this tasks better if hot-site will have multilevel
>> tasks. Currently there is only "not ready", "ready" and
>> "validated". How about "step one - roads", "step ... -
>> buildings", "validated"?
>> 
>> - power lines. how match are they important and if really
>> important i would see some tool which allow creating tagged line
>> and points at one shot.
>> 
>> - are there any way to make some tag global for some task? for
>> example source=bing. I use it only for HOT, and i use other tag
>> for my town. It is some kind annoying if need to it all the time.
>> Or may be there are some other options? Suggestions are welcome.
>> 
>> - Currently it is second my job with lots of slums. May be some
>> of them not really slums, but they are pain in ass if you need to
>> draw them. Should we draw them? Or there is some kind of
>> landuse=slum tag?
>> 
>> -- Regards, Oleksij
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