[OSM-talk] Adding notes on www.openstreetmap.org

[David Earl]

It is my experience that many notes people add to the map in my area are
misunderstanding what notes are for: they try to add an annotated marker in
the hope they can use it to send people directions, and similar. Is this
other people's experience too?

Could this maybe be discouraged by changing the wording. Instead of "Add a
note tot he map" on the hover tool tip, could it say something like "Report
a correction or addition needed to the map" or some such, and instead of
"New Note" in the panel heading, say "Report a problem on the map" (no one
reads the small print underneath).

The other thing people do with notes is to report missing names, when they
are already there if only they zoomed in (I don't know what the solution
there is - people won't read instructions). Sometimes this is not shown
because the caption is there but not shown because it would clash with
another caption or icon nearby, but very often it is there all along, they
just didn't look hard enough. Maybe it could zoom the map in when you click
- that would also help the gross innaccuracy of where people tend to put
markers.

David
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