[OSM-talk] Addressing SIG

[marc marc]

Simon Poole:
>> how can the new contributor wishing to add an address find this tool?

> That doesn't make the slightest difference, because the only people
> adding addresses in any meaningful way are those 1% of contributors.

it's the problem of the egg and the chicken :
if effective tools were accessible to 2% 3% 10% of contributors,
then the speed would be multiplied by 2, 3 or 10

A more effective contribution would be to consider 3 types
of location/contributor:

- those where the opendata is of quality: we should talk about import

- those where the opendata exists but where the import has not been 
accepted and/or not yet done and/or new address exist: the "normal" 
contributor (99%) should be able to easily access the opendata in
an editor and validate in one click if it is correct. or correct
the position easily. osmose opendata-fork allow that but it'sn't
a editor that newbies find when surfing on osm.org.
and only a very few location are listed for addr.

- those where the opendata does not exist: a drop-down list
to avoid having to rewrite the street name is a minimum.
It also avoid typo and letter case.

Thinking about the time spent on the addresses I added,
I think I could have been much more efficient for both those
added by survey and those from opendata.
so by spending the same amount of time on it, I could have added
a lot more. And it would have been much more motivating to do it
often.

Regards,
Marc