[Talk-GB] Not all Notes are Equal

[Philip Barnes]

Hi Brian
It sounds a good idea, it would be useful to be able to filter notes by age too.

When notes are added, a message does appear in the gb irc channel, where they can be looked at by somebody, but the fading sounds a nice idea.

Phil (trigpoint)
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On 26/03/2014 9:15 Brian Prangle wrote:

The Notes feature available on the OSM home page is a great way to encourage non-mappers to add comments and point our errors and omissions (it’s also a great method for mappers too!)
BUT …. now all the extant OpenStreetBugs Notes have migrated over , some of which are YEARS old, it’s all getting a bit crowded and hard to differentiate new notes.
I like to view new notes and try to encourage those who have added them to add more by either amending the map where it’s obvious what’s needed or I know the area; doing a ground survey if it’s close or adding a comment where the note is not clear. The encouragement only works if the note is acted on quickly.
So I have a proposal whereby notes are differentiated by age, gradually fading in colour as they age until they turn white , (much like us really!)
 So for example new notes get a bright colour on the day they’re created, then fade at week, month, 3 month, 6 month old until they become white after a year. I’m sure that to those who code such things this is not a major task 

regards


Brian


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