[HOT] validation

Dale Kunce dale.kunce at gmail.com
Mon Jun 29 23:21:45 UTC 2015


Susan feel free to edit the instructions of the Canaan task number 870. Arc
made a gist tracing guide to try and help with gifs and lit of pictures.

If the final result could be in markdown that would help the tasking
manager admins a lot.

Dale

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015, 7:18 PM Suzan Reed <suzan at suzanreed.com> wrote:

> The instructions are not always clear, often have information newcomers
> don't understand, and are formatted in a way that make them difficult to
> grasp.
>
> People read information on the web differently than they do on paper.
> Short paragraphs of one sentence, lots of space, bulleted lists all work
> well.
>
> I've been thinking this for a few days. I'm adept in web usability
> (taught/lectured on the subject) and I think it's possible to put together
> a form activators could fill in that would make the instructions clearer.
> Instructions or a wiki on how to write for an activation could be helpful.
>
> I could edit one for clarity, but would need someone to volunteer their
> activation instructions so I know I'm not going to offend. ;-)
>
> Cheers!
>
> Suzan
>
>
> On Jun 29, 2015, at 3:12 PM, john whelan wrote:
>
> I think if we get something like Nepal crop up again that this would be an
> excellent introduction to HOT mapping and would help on the data quality
> side.  However we have around a thousand open projects in HOT at the moment
> and making an intro like this for each one would take quite a bit of effort.
>
> Is the HOT training group aware of these?
>
> Thanks John
>
> On 29 June 2015 at 15:53, pierre mirlesse <pierre_mirlesse at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> John whelan mentioned in his note: "If you put something in the task
> instructions then people have to read them
> and there seems to be a tendency to just map first and read the
> instructions afterwards"
>
> inputs: maybe the descriptions and instructions format of the Tasking
> Manager a little too "dry" for new mappers.
> maybe a short video conversation/intro 2-3 mn about Why the task was
> created, by Whom and how it will be used
> could insure more "stickyness/interest" of new mappers to the task and
> promoting reading it's description.
> John if interested to test this out... let me know. Here are some of the
> intros I've done for other tasks:
> How To Map in Openstreetmap : Basic Training ID Editor HOT Task #1090
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> How To Map in Openstreetmap : Basic Training ID Editor...
> View on www.youtube.com
> Preview by Yahoo
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> How To Map in OSM : Advanced training with JOSM HOT Task #1062
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> How To Map in OSM : Advanced training with JOSM HO...
> View on www.youtube.com
> Preview by Yahoo
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> Pierre
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