[OSM-talk] What would make MapRoulette better?

[Martijn van Exel]

Erwin, 

Are you suggesting MapRoulette have some sort of manual ‘merge’ function? Suggesting changes to tags (or even geometry) that the user would just confirm, instead of going to JOSM / iD and make edits manually?

Martijn

> On Nov 20, 2017, at 8:08 PM, Erwin Olario <govvin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> So sorry for the terse reply.
> 
> Right now, the only way to build task is to specify the location or specific objects. 
> 
> The use-case I have in mind is when a data provider allows or donates their data into OSM, and apart from geographic location and geometry, they have specific attributes usable in OSM.
> 
> For example, a local school department gives the local OSM community permission to use their school location data that includes the official school name (which may be missing or incomplete in the current database), and contact number, and official website. And instead of doing a bulkl import, and using MR, the data are presented to the MR contributor to be merged or added into OSM.
> 
> In this example the tags: name, contact:phone, contact:website are added to the specific tasks of the challenge.
> 
> /Erwin
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 12:36 AM Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org <mailto:m at rtijn.org>> wrote:
> Hi Erwin, 
> 
> Can you give an example of what you would like to see and how you would like it to work?
> 
> -- 
> Martijn van Exel
> 
> On November 20, 2017 at 6:30:01 AM, Erwin Olario (govvin at gmail.com <mailto:govvin at gmail.com>) wrote:
> 
>> 
>> I wish to see support for OSM tags for tasks.
>> 
>> On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 5:02 AM Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org <mailto:m at rtijn.org>> wrote:
>> Hi all, 
>> 
>> For those who have used MapRoulette or at least have a good understanding of what it does: what would be the *one top thing* for you that would make it better? 
>> 
>> I am asking because I am working on a new major release. 
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>> Martijn van Exel
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