[HOT] Projects on the HOT OSM Tasking Manager - lots of them

[Jo]

Something that baffles me about the TM is that when a task is split, the
original tile seems to disappear from existence, even though people could
still have a reference to it, they will get a not found message and they
can't read the comments anymore.

As a long time OSM contritbutor, I started doing validation work. I always
try to read the instructions, but I also find I'm jumping between tasks
quite often. It poses its own challenges... Anyway, I tend to prefer the
tasks where not every building needs to be mapped, but sometimes it's hard
to find the middle ground. In a tile where almost nothing is visible, I'd
try to map at least something like the rivers and the occasional footpath.
By mapping the rivers it becomes easier to find the 'roads' where they
cross the rivers. And the rivers are nice reference points by themselves as
well, of course.

Polyglot

2015-12-06 17:58 GMT+01:00 Dale Kunce <dale.kunce at gmail.com>:

> Ralf and John.
> I don't either of you are ranting but providing good feedback that aligns
> with my own thinking about tasks. I favor smaller tasks that can be
> completed quickly rather than huge tasks that take multiple mappers to
> complete.
>
> One thing that I think we are moving towards is a set of guidelines for TM
> PMs. This will standardize a lot of language and help keep tasks
> manageable. I'm working on a draft that I'll share with the HOT and TM PM
> lists once it's ready to share.
>
> Thanks as always for your time.
>
> On Sun, Dec 6, 2015, 11:35 AM Ralf Stephan <gtrwst9 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The key for moving people from one-time to many-time contribution is
>> motivation.
>> I have seen volunteers suddenly much more motivated when I commented with
>> more
>> than a few words on a validation I did. But at least equally important is
>> task and tile size.
>> Large tasks are tackled more than a few times only by long-time
>> contributors. Why have
>> such big tasks when there is no hurry? I know I am more motivated if tile
>> sizes are small.
>> I'm sure it's more so with new contributors, so why have such large tiles
>> per default, if
>> they aren't completed anyway? Everything is made ever more casual, but I
>> need 30-60
>> minutes to complete the smallest tile size to my satisfaction. Please
>> increase the split
>> count AND make the default tile size smaller, or you will never get
>> enough completed tiles by people who want to invest rather 15 than minutes.
>>
>> Sorry for ranting
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