[OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Tool update from HOT: MapCampaigner

[Christoph Hormann]

On Monday 01 October 2018, Nate Smith wrote:
> Thanks for the comment and questions Frederik. Agreed that quality
> and quantity isn’t exactly the same. And I hope that the UI in the
> tool hasn’t communicated that this is just about statistics and
> quantity - it is more than just a feature counter.
>
> We certainly could say it is a richness monitor, but the goal and
> purpose is more than that. [...]

Well - we can only evaluate the actual tool and its features, we cannot 
evaluate intentions behind it.

As it is the tool only measures numbers of features and numbers of tags 
(in the form of features missing the tag in question, which is the 
same).  It communicates to the user that these are only things that 
matters:  Adding features and adding tags to those features.

So as Frederik says as it is this is not a quality monitoring tool, this 
is a quantity monitoring tool.

Apart from that you are probably not aware what the term campaign 
communicates in this context.  A campaign in the sense of a political 
or military campaign is an initiative to impose one's views or 
interests on others, swaying people's opinions and influencing their 
behaviour in contrast to engaging in an open argument about the best 
approach and trying to convince people this way.  You should probably 
think carefully if this is what you want to communicate here.

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Christoph Hormann
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