[OSM-talk] "Incorrect speed limit" anonymous notes - who is behind that?

[Christian Quest]

More (automatic) details in the notes could be useful.

For example: add the heading (something like N, NW, etc)...
Also make sure you're creating the note at the earliest position and not
when the report is saved/confirmed.

Have you considered sharing GPS traces ?
This would be another major datafeed to improve OSM data quality...



2014-08-19 16:47 GMT+02:00 <phil at trigpoint.me.uk>:

> Hi Eric
> Thanks for your comments,  I have been having a play with wisepilot and do
> quite like it.
>
> Pleased to see you are addressing the issues we have pointed out.
>
> I did find the login to osm after i used it, but used with care I found it
> excellent. It was a quiet time so I was able to stop where the limits
> changed and was then able to use the notes to indicate the points to split
> the ways.
>
> The fact I then used them helped, not so easy if it had been someone else.
>
> Thanks
> Phil (trigpoint )
>
> On Tue Aug 19 2014 13:58:06 GMT+0100 (BST), Erik Mattsson wrote:
> > Hi my name is Erik and I work as a developer at Appello that owns the
> Wisepilot application. In our latest release (5.1) we've included a first
> iteration for a report component with the intention to make it easier for
> our users to report map issues in OSM. Unfortunately the release for
> version 5.1 was pushed hard to be ready before the summer vacations which
> led to us not having much personnel here monitoring the feedback we got
> during the summer vacations. I'm very sorry we didn't get on the issues
> you've discussed in this thread earlier.
> >
> > Our intention with this report component is to try to increase the
> quality of the navigation data in OSM by making it easier for our users to
> report issues they see while driving. We've got quite a big chunk of users
> that aren't that "tech savvy" so we want to make it easy for these users to
> contribute to the map quality while using the application normally. These
> are users that feel that it's too big a step to go to the OSM page and edit
> the data directly. This was our first iteration and apparently we have
> quite a lot of issues to address here.
> >
> > All map notes users send go through our server to OSM and a copy is
> saved in our database so we can track the usage internally. We currently
> allow anonymous posting but since it seems like too many "spam" posts gets
> created we will try to impose limits that encourages users to register at
> OSM more. Users can sign in to OSM in the application and if they do the
> notes are posted as their account. We are working towards increasing the
> quality of the reports and any feedback from the community is very welcome.
> >
> > We switched from commercial map data to OSM quite recently(Feb - March)
> and since the switch we've been working on improving the OSM functionality
> in our application. This component is just one part of that.
> >
> > I've tried to read through most of the comments here and have made two
> small fixes that will be rolled out on our servers later today. Those are
> to block reports with 0 as speed and that we add a signature stating that
> the report was sent through us. In the short term we will try to make
> client changes that enforce some basic spam preventing rules and provides
> the users with more information about what happens with their reports. We
> will also look over the imperial/metric situation. As it is now we use the
> same system as the user does within the application and we did the
> assumption that users that drives in a country with imperial system also
> have the client set to imperial. In a lot of cases this doesn't seem to be
> the case though, so this needs to be addressed.
> >
> > Please feel free to contact me or support at appello.com (or here on
> OSM-talk) with feedback or questions about this component or the
> application in general. We do not want to create a lot of garbage reports
> that just ends up cluttering the database and never gets resolved, that's
> not beneficial for anyone.
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> > --
> > Erik Mattsson
> > Software Engineer
> >
> > Location: Appello | Göteborg | Sweden
> > Phone: +4673-636 10 68
> > Mail: erik.mattsson at appello.com
> > Web: www.appello.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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