[OSM-talk] Should we send automated "nag" emails?

[joost schouppe]

The iD logic is that you first draw a polygon, then mark what it is. So
what happens is new mappers see a nice little polygon on the map, and
forget they still have to mark it as a thing. As you have told iD already
that you want to map a polygon, it has already tagged it with "area=yes"
(which will be removed if you tag it as something that's an area by
default).

In a mapathon flow, this is quite normal to happen. They are not mapping a
building, looking at the result, then continuing with something else. They
are just mapping lots of buildings. During mapathons, it's a constant
challenge to keep an eye (both virtual and over the shoulder) on people
doing this.

iD does give a very clear warning when you are trying to save untagged
points, lines and polygons. It even generates a list of untagged things,
which you can click on to zoom to the guilty object. Of course, you can
ignore all of that (which is even sometimes justified).

This feature is relatively new, it might be interesting to see how many of
the guilty area=yes things were created since the implementation.

It also sounds like it would be useful to have people save quickly and try
to render the area they are working on. That has the disadvantage that you
also need to start explaining quite a few things about rendering first.


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