[HOT] Customizable OSM editor

[Suzan Reed]

I volunteer to test the usability of a restricted iD interface, and to add my two cents to what would have worked for me when I started mapping. 

A "New to mapping? Click here!" button on the front page of the OSM site taking new mappers to "How to get started" page would be an excellent addition, too. 

Suzan 


On Jun 6, 2015, at 11:41 PM, althio wrote:

Hi Thomas,

I think *most* of your requirements would be met with a specific
instance of iD editor with customised presets (a very reduced set).

> The avantages of such an editor would be:
> a) No bothering with tags, comments, etc.
> b) Reduction of the chance of duplicates. Because no elements outside
> the task elements are allowed.
> c) Standardisation, through predefined tags and elements
> d) Simple to use interface for users who want to help but dont want to
> know the in depth details. ( Those who want to know will switch to
> another editor anyway)
> e) optional integrated help
> f) automatic functionality like squared buildings


This has been experimented previously for a particular project:
See "open source project to map all logging roads across the Congo
Basin Rainforest"
http://loggingroads.org/ with its own integrated iD.

I love the idea and it would be great to have a person/team to run
some dry tests in HOT context.

Cheers

- althio



On 6 June 2015 at 16:15, Thomas Tolloschek <cadderly at lumpaczik.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am following the Hot Mailinglist for a while as passive reader and
> since Nepal more active.
> 
> These last weeks I was thinking a lot how to help new mappers while
> achieving more standardisation and compareable output.
> 
> In my opinion HOT needs a highly customizable and automatic configurable
> editor.
> Think of some sort of Potlatch where the items are automtically
> restricted to the ones needed by a specific task. All the tags and
> comments are automatically filled in.
> For example: The user just needs to draw a polygon click on the house
> button and save. No more confusion if building=yes or building=house
> should bei used
> All the presets are done by the Taskmanager and the defined task attributes.
> 
> If you look at the various statistics, you will see that a high
> percentage of the edits has been done in the first few days after the
> desaster by new OSM users.
> Many of them contribute only a few changesets or less. I was asking
> myself why this happened.
> Was there not enough help und information? I dont think so.
> I think that the informations have been too much and too spread for
> first time users. And l think that many of them where overwhelmed by all
> the things they have to think about.
> 
> So why not moving the rule and format stuff into an editor?
> 
> The avantages of such an editor would be:
> a) No bothering with tags, comments, etc.
> b) Reduction of the chance of duplicates. Because no elements outside
> the task elements are allowed.
> c) Standardisation, through predefined tags and elements
> d) Simple to use interface for users who want to help but dont want to
> know the in depth details. ( Those who want to know will switch to
> another editor anyway)
> e) optional integrated help
> f) automatic functionality like squared buildings
> 
> I know this does not help for the Nepal crisis mapping but I think this
> idea is worth a thought for improving the quality of data in the future
> while motivating new users to map more and therefore speeding up the
> completion of HOT tasks.
> 
> Kind regards
> Thomas
> 
> 
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