[Osmf-talk] Applications creating notes

[Sebastian Gürtler]

(Please apologize commenting here without having followed more than the
last tree posts and without the possibility to spend much time following
further.)

Could a code of conduct for closing notes (I just mean manually) in the
wiki ameliorate the flood of notes? Does it exist already? How about
just linking from the website openstreetmap.org and maybe iD to such a
page? This could encourage people just closing redundant or cryptic notes?

Greetings, Sebastian

Am 19.05.23 um 23:54 schrieb
b.kilhu+ytrwslnopdfujmrtjzkvsxweizfjncifmzdwwypiihjzdikulpnvql+- at gmail.com:
> Bigger problems we see with map notes are the following.
>
> The name "note" itself is confusing users.
>
> Would need a bit more elaboration of what it does on the interface
> before submission.
>
> Sometimes, it is evident from the text of the map note that it was
> either created by mistake or that we will inevitably ask for further
> evidence (usually a website or photo). So it would be beneficial if we
> had a collaborative edited regexp or fuzzy rule set to which the
> interface could pop up a dialog during or before submission for
> confirmation with a canned recommendation text.

> If one adds a note without logging in, they won't get notified if a
> mapper would ask for elaboration. Hence we usually just close this on
> first sight if any question comes up. Just mentioning about each POI
> that it might or might not be live today helps nobody if we need to
> survey it in person - these things clear up on a mapping party.
>
> The OSM registration and onboarding flaw is awful. I wish I had my
> camera rolling once I tried to onboard a smart guy with years of
> mapping background. I had to beg his pardon every minutes on his short
> journey from typing in the website correctly to correcting three small
> things on the map with iD.
>
> Even without registration, there should be some easy way one adding a
> map note could be notified about feedback (for further questions or
> for just saying thank you after we acted upon it). This could be in
> the form of a PWA through 0-factor anonymous cookie-login or the user
> typing in their email or some other messaging contact that could be
> stored temporarily for a relay bot to forward messages in a
> pseudonymous manner.
>
> On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 11:14 PM Brian M. Sperlongano
> <zelonewolf at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 4:57 PM Emerson Rocha via osmf-talk <osmf-talk at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>>> Sperlongano seems concerned with accepting *any* kind of note just because it is a note
>>
>> I am concerned with the suggestion that we tell all application developers that they must have their software generate notes within their app and dump them into the map. I hope we can all agree this is a bad idea.
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