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

[Hans De Kryger]

I just closed a note made by the Phoenix zoo last week. Totally confused
me. Eventually i figured it out. They said something along the lines as
"this is are main entrance. Some guest have used the wrong entrance."

The note was on top of the main entry way into the zoo. Which had been
properly map long ago. They believed somehow that the purpose of notes on
osm was to help others in someway. Not knowing like you said, it's for
missing data or mistakes to fix. So yes oddly i have run into that.

Regards,
Hans
On May 6, 2016 5:17 AM, "David Earl" <david at frankieandshadow.com> wrote:

> 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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