[OSM-talk] Quality of OSM Notes

[Martijn van Exel]

Bryce - that is a good point. When a note gets resolved, we have the ideal
opportunity to engage the casual contributor who is kind enough to leave a
note that is good enough for someone to act on. Unfortunately we cannot
(easily?) do that the way notes are set up right now. At Telenav we go
around that problem by adding a service layer between the notes and the
user. When someone submits feedback with Scout, it goes to that service
layer, which then determines if it's 'good enough' and posts it to OSM as a
note. It keeps track of the OSM status of the note, and gets back to the
Scout user when it gets resolved in OSM. (I wrote about this in my diary,
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mvexel/diary/28208).

This system is tailored to our specific use case but it would not be too
hard (famous last words) to add this to 'native' OSM by asking folks to
(optionally) leave their email address so we can keep them apprised of its
status.

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 11:38 PM, Bryce Nesbitt <bryce2 at obviously.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 5:47 PM, Alex Barth <alex at mapbox.com> wrote:
>
>> Less notes should not be an objective, smarter ways to look at them and
>>> process them should.
>>> I agree, simplicity rules.
>>>
>> Some ideas to manage the overkill.
>>
>
> While we can build better tools to process large numbers of notes, the one
> thing we can't
> do under the current system is ask the person who wrote the note for more
> information.  There's (usually)
> just one chance to collect that information.  And when the map is updated,
> is an excellent time to draw
> people back to OSM for a second look (so they can take pride in having
> contributed).
>
> For both reasons I think that getting more contact information outweighs
> simplicity.
>



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Martijn van Exel
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