[HOT] [Tasking Manager] enhancements - testers required

Pierre GIRAUD pierre.giraud at gmail.com
Wed Jan 16 16:23:43 GMT 2013


On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Sam Larsen <samlarsen1 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> >>
> That was something quite confusing about the task manager: you had to
> login to do *anything*. I see on the dev server, that it's still a
> requirement to login to browse the tasks. Is this really necessary? It
> would be nicer if a login would be *only* necessary for "write" actions,
> like locking/commenting ?
> >
> >
> >You're right. Accessing a tile in read-only mode shouldn't require a
> login.
> >I'm not sure a user should be able to access a job without being logged
> in.
> >
> >
>
> One thing i have come to realise after the fantastic!! updates to the
> tasking manager over the last year or so (big pat on the back to all
> involved) is that it is increasingly becoming easier to contribute to OSM
> via the HOT tasking manager than through OSM itself!  This really outlines
> how effective the tasking manager has become, especially by providing the
> mechanism to describe specific mapping tasks that need to be done and
> guiding mappers (new or old) through the process of making an edit.  OSM is
> sometimes (mostly?) overwhelming for new mappers and i can see the tasking
> manager being a really useful tool to get new mappers involved.
> For that reason, i would request that we show much more data to non-logged
> in users (i.e. potential OSM/HOT contributors).  I realise this might not
> be straightforward in terms of how it is technically implemented, but i
> think it's needed all the same.  Being able to access the entire platform
> read-only will help to tell the story of how we map a place to new mappers
> - except for maybe HOT acquired imagery urls or any other sensitive
> information on the system.  The 'Take the Tour' addition to the
> platform definitely helps towards this goal, but i feel it is a bit general
> and it would be nice to show *exactly* what we are doing *now*.
> I'm sure there are lots of people who would be more interested in
> contributing to a humanitarian project than an IT project; let's not kid
> ourselves, sometimes people see OSM as an IT / Geeky crowd - many are put
> off by this.  That's where i think HOT can offer them a middle ground, they
> get the opportunity to help a humanitarian cause while at the same time
> becoming more OSM aware.  Being able to link to a task (especially
> immediately after a major disaster) on a social networking platform to show
> people this what we are doing to help in a clear way (which is what the TM
> provides) will enable them to explore our work and see that it's not
> actually that complicated and they can get involved.
> I think the next step after that is to integrate a new simplified
> JavaScript editor (this is where i should pull my socks up and contribute
> to something like ID[1] ;) for the kinds of editing that we do.
>
> Aside from all my outstanding requests, i am really impressed with the
> rapid work on the platform, it seems every time i use it there is a new
> helpful feature.  Thanks to all who have contributed.
>

"All who have contributed" == "95% me"   ;-)
Patches and contributions are welcome.


>
> samlarsen1
>
> [1]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ID
>



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