[OSM-talk] New users and post-edit processing (was "Making iD the default editor on osm.org)

[Kathleen Danielson]

I also think this is a great idea. To me, the idea that we can "release" a
piece of software until it's perfect because if a new user makes a mistake
he or she will received nasty emails is fundamentally flawed. Granted,
there's a bit of hyperbole in there, but I appreciate this different view
of the issue.

As we approach the status of having "fully mapped" the world, we will
inevitably need to increasingly shift our focus to map maintenance over
creation. Granted, many people are already doing that excellently, but the
issue of map "gardening" deserves more attention so that more people can
participate and maintain and improve the quality of OSM's data.




On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Bryce Nesbitt <bryce2 at obviously.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>wrote:
>
>> --> Going off on a tangent here and leaving the scope of immediate iD
>> improvements - someone else has posted that a while ago in a different
>> discussion. Maybe we are far too obsessed with trying to make sure nothing
>> is ever broken in an edit session. Maybe we should focus more on
>> post-processing of edits. Give users the option of saying "I'd like someone
>> else to review my edit". If user does that, a special tag ("review=yes") is
>> set on the changeset. A list/map of such "changesets for review" could then
>> be generated and processed by users who are interested in helping. Before
>> too long we'll have feature where changesets can be commented/discussed
>> which would go nicely with this.
>
>
> +100 on this.  OSM editing for a first timer is lonely.
> There's no evidence anyone in the project cares until you make a mistake
> (then you get pillored).
>
> Mistakes themselves are not a problem in a system with undo.
> But in a database with millions of nodes, something has to focus checking,
> else bad edits just drop as needles into the haystack.
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