[HOT] What are the top coding needs for the activation?

[Nick Allen]

Hi,

As an experienced mapper, I think these 3 suggestions have hit the nail 
on the head.

Just to expand on these a little;

1). A % of confidence or completion may be an answer, together with a 
date of completion. As more satellite imagery becomes available it is 
then possible to go back over the squares completed at an earlier stage. 
I am aware of at least 2 squares where I attempted with at least 8 
satellite sources, but was unable to trace all buildings with the 
available data.

2/. Links - I agree, but would like this expanded.
I don't know how the teams on the ground will feed info back into the 
system, but imagine that it could include scans of walking papers with 
hand written notes for adding to the data. These could be uploaded & 
used from the tasking manager.
GPS traces. I don't think there will be many of these available, but if 
some people are taking Garmin maps out, they may have a trace that could 
be fed back into the system & we should make use of this to best effect 
- OSM strips off any waypoint info, so just the trace remains. If our 
volunteer has created a waypoint showing where a village really is, and 
what it's name is, we should not lose that data. They may also have 
waypoints showing other info such as drinking water supplies, aid 
distribution points, road blockages etc. etc..

3/. Source tags - agree 100%

Thanks for reading
Nick  (Tallguy)

Regards NickOn 15/11/13 08:32, Dan S wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noted down three Task Manager suggestions that came from newcomers
> we were teaching:
>
> (1) When clicking Done, would be good to be able to mark "...but
> incomplete due to imagery limitations"
> https://github.com/hotosm/osm-tasking-manager/issues/162
>
> (2) Would be great to have links in the task manager to demos/videos
> eg "how to map buildings quickly" in a buildings-related task
> https://github.com/hotosm/osm-tasking-manager/issues/163
>
> (3) On a TM task page, when you click a link to launch into JOSM, it'd
> be nice if the "source" changeset tag could be pre-filled since the
> task currently asks people to explicitly add that, but after all the
> webpage is already talking to josm...
> https://github.com/hotosm/osm-tasking-manager/issues/164
>
> Dan
>
> 2013/11/15 Mikel Maron <mikel_maron at yahoo.com>:
>> Has anyone been tracking particular software dev needs coming out of the
>> activation?
>>
>> I may try to join the crisiscamp DC on Saturday, and wonder what else we can
>> have folks do besides the mapping.
>>
>> Mikel
>>
>>
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