[HOT] [Tasking Manager] enhancements - testers required

[Kate Chapman]

Thank you for being the 95%!

Though if people want to help in development I'm sure Pierre would not mind.

-Kate

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:23 AM, Pierre GIRAUD <pierre.giraud at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Sam Larsen <samlarsen1 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> 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 ?
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>> >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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> "All who have contributed" == "95% me"   ;-)
> Patches and contributions are welcome.
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>> samlarsen1
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>> [1]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ID
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