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

Daniel O'Connor daniel.oconnor at gmail.com
Mon Dec 7 02:35:22 UTC 2015


I raised https://github.com/hotosm/osm-tasking-manager2/issues/718 focused
only on the front page list/different purposes it serves. Ideas or examples
of other 'task priority' UI encouraged.

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 3:40 AM, Jo <winfixit at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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