[Talk-us] MapRoulette challenges wiki

[Mikel Maron]

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MapRoulette is awesome!

Had a bunch of thoughts on displaying stats, users, etc, and realized I was just pushing some of the existing features of HOT Tasking Server into MapRoulette. The differences between tasking and maproulette is 1) how tasks are created (tasking you create a grid. how are tasks created in maproulette?) 2) the size of the task (single vs tile). Even in Map Roulette, there are some places where I could have taken a larger chunk, a single area with 5 connectivity errors is just as easy to fix; I just got one such roulette spin, and wasn't sure if I should fix the others or not, because there's no way to mark them fixed.

Connecting MapRoulette to Keep Right is brilliant. But what if you want to do something focused? Possible to create your own jobs in MapRoulette? In the tasking server, there's no analysis of contributions ... I'd like to set up KeepRight analysis of an area being mapped for HOT to catch errors and build stats on what's being mapped. Say you're drawing buildings ... analysis and give stats and visualization of that particular feature growth overall and per tile. 

I'd like micro-tasking tools to be integrated lightly into osm.org. If you're browsing or monitoring an area, you can get alerted if there are relevant tasks to do. Or at least just have a general reminder to go check it out.

I guess the real question is ... is there a common pattern here, and are the benefits of merging tools somehow worth the cost?
 
* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron


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> From: Alex Barth <alex at mapbox.com>
>To: Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org> 
>Cc: OpenStreetMap US Talk <talk-us at openstreetmap.org> 
>Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2012 2:45 AM
>Subject: Re: [Talk-us] MapRoulette challenges wiki
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>Added some context on the map roulette page [1] and tweeted [2]. Re: prioritizing: best ideas first? :)
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>[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MapRoulette
>[2] https://twitter.com/lxbarth/status/264437731965403136
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>On Nov 2, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>> 
>> I opened a MapRoulette challenges wiki page a few days ago and the
>> ideas start trickling in:
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>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MapRoulette/Challenges
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>> (I just added the traffic signals one)
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>> Two things:
>> 1) If you have an idea of your own, please add it, being as specific
>> as possible. Bear in mind that the challenges should involve
>> (potential) bugs that can be fixed without local knowledge, and that
>> they should be machine-detectable (SQL based on osmosis snapshot DB
>> schema appreciated ;)
>> 2) Any ideas on how to prioritize these? A poll / voting system or something?
>> 
>> --
>> martijn van exel
>> http://oegeo.wordpress.com
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