[OSM-talk] POI Collection as a Competition
Richard Weait
richard at weait.com
Fri Jun 11 00:04:22 BST 2010
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 6:06 PM, <simon at mungewell.org> wrote:
>
>> creating competition in this way can be disruptive to the community,
>> by encouraging people to work in isolation, amongst other things
>>
>
> Would an approach be to get a community of people working on a particular
> area and highlight the improvement made as a result?
>
> For example there has been talk on talk-ca of tagging bus-stops in 3
> Canadian cities, is there (could there be) a prize for being the 1st one
> 100% tagging?
The prize is better data. And the joy of good work well done.
Offering prizes beyond recognition of excellent work [1] is a bad
idea. If you reward trivial submissions, you get more trivial
submissions.
Let's forget the prizes for now, even if they could some how be turned
into a positive. What about the mechanism?
How do we create a super easy way for folks with focused interests to
participate in OSM? Say a super postbox click-adder. How does that
work? Does the data get submitted automatically to the API, and under
which user id? Or should new postboxes be confirmed by a user from
another IP address first?
How do we make it super easy to have multi-linguists translate our
countries, states and cities?
This goes part way and shows which countries are translated in which
languages.
http://toolserver.org/~mazder/multilingual-country-list/
But each addition requires a session in JOSM or Potlatch. Can we make
it easier with an editor / interface that works only with a single
tag?
The super amazing OSM Quick Check wants to fix your dead end streets.
The prototype creates a simple interface to work on a single issue,
dead end roads.
http://vatavia.net/mark/osmqc/CheckEnds.html
Can that idea be extended, use a check and recheck crowd strategy and
improve our data in an organized and useful way?
[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lolcat_of_awesomeness
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