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

[Robert Banick]

I think Daniel’s suggestion is a good idea; we don’t make nearly enough use of the front page. I would also like the ability to use custom filters, perhaps based off the task hashtags?


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On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Daniel O'Connor <daniel.oconnor at gmail.com>
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> 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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