[OSM-talk] Microvolunteering - interesting opportunity for low barrier OSM contribution
Ed Avis
eda at waniasset.com
Thu Jun 18 13:42:43 BST 2009
OJ W <ojwlists <at> googlemail.com> writes:
>Perhaps openstreetbugs (or whatever issue-tracking system we end up
>with) could have an "ask for help" option that would publish a
>question for Extraordinaries to answer by visiting the location?
Yes - the bug report would need to be one that's understandable to newcomers and
reasonably specific.
Good: At what point does Major Road change name to Minor Road?
What is the exact location of this post box?
Bad: This road is one-way [a request to update OSM database, not to survey]
Need to map this area [too general]
Don't know what this means [a question about the database not the real world]
The 'Bad' things are quite valid bugs but they aren't something to push out to
low-level contributors. So OpenStreetBugs would need a box to tick 'this bug is
a simple query about the real world'.
Further, the low-level volunteer could just type in their reply rather than be
expected to use Potlatch etc. (We can get them addicted to that later!) Then
a more advanced OSM contributor would see the question and answer in
OpenStreetBugs and update the database.
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Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>
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