[Talk-GB] Upcoming changes to OpenStreetMap.org website

[David Earl]

On 15/11/2013 20:15, Rob Nickerson wrote:
> (The aim of this email is to provide prior knowledge of an upcoming change to the
> OSM website and to give you an opportunity to provide constructive feedback)

One other thing... notes are really helpful, and not immediately new 
though they were introduced on the way to these changes. I have a feed 
on the whole of my area, but in dealing with these I've seen two 
problems which I imagine others have too...

1. Some people think they are adding a personal note, not making 
feedback. (this is kind of analogous to the pervasive problem with 
Potlatch earlier on where people didn't realise they were live editing 
the database).

I think this would largely go away if the button (on hover, layer toggle 
caption, and the headline in the new panel) were labelled 'Feedback' or 
'Report a problem'

2. Many reports are of 'missing' things, which are already on the map. 
Many times they haven't zoomed in enough to see the feature (e.g. a 
'missing' pub); others it really is missing in the rendering, but not in 
the data because of the way the renderer randomly drops POIs and 
captions if they clash with others. Latter is beyond scope of this, but 
could the text in the salmon box ask them to please zoom in to maximum 
to make sure it isn't already there?

David