[Talk-scotland] Users adding notes about path issues around Edinburgh

[Shaun McDonald]

> On 27 Oct 2016, at 17:24, Donald Noble <drnoble at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> One or more anonymous users is adding notes to paths in Edinburgh complaining about the quality of the path surface, or localised flooding, e.g. http://www.openstreetmap.org/note/761917 <http://www.openstreetmap.org/note/761917>
> 
> I contacted the twitter user in the above one from the @OSMScotland account, and he advised that there is a consultation being run in Edinburgh to flag up issues with paths, and it is asking people to add notes to OSM!
> 
> Link to consultation:
> https://consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/design-cycle-walk-nepn/ <https://consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/design-cycle-walk-nepn/>
> 
> Part way through the survey the following image is included, 
> https://www.snapsurveys.com/wh/k/147645046739/picture2.jpg <https://www.snapsurveys.com/wh/k/147645046739/picture2.jpg>

Reading the text in the above screenshot suggests to me, that they are expecting users to send a screenshot with a marker for the map location, and not actually submit the note to OSM. Cyclescape would be a far better tool for this purpose, potentially adding a specific tag to the issues. Cyclescape has various tools specifically for collecting this sort of information.

Shaun

> 
> Which is directing people to add notes to the map then send screenshots to EdinburghCycling.uki at aecom.com <mailto:EdinburghCycling.uki at aecom.com>. 
> 
> So from this I suspect the council have commissioned AECOM to carry out the survey, and they have no understanding of how the notes system in OSM works.
> 
> I have not contacted either the council or AECOM yet, thought I would see what other people's thoughts were.
> 
> Cheers, Donald 
> 
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