[OSM-talk] What would make MapRoulette better?

[ajt1047 at gmail.com]

On 19/11/2017 20:59, Martijn van Exel wrote:
> 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?
>

Most importantly,

I'd try and make it a bit more obvious what it is.  When you go to 
http://maproulette.org/ you see a map, some numbers, and not much else.  
There's a "sign in" button, but nothing explaining what benefits there 
are (to me or it) from doing so.  Nothing says what the site is or what 
it is for.  The only mention of OSM is in the attibution at the bottom 
right, and that says "CC-BY-SA".


In addition:

Pressing return in the search box doesn't do anything.

What is presumably a settings icon at the right just displays some 
numbers but doesn't say what they are (e.g. "Total Tasks" - but what is 
a "Task"?)

There's a button at the top left that just seems to refresh the screen.

If I zoom in to a marker the "Edit" and "False Positive" buttons are 
greyed out, though oddly there are keyboard shortcuts for these. There 
are hard-coded options for a couple of OSM editors (though again oddly 
not a basic "edit" link).

The "I fixed it" button produces a "Not Authorised" error.

Best Regards,
Andy

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