[OSM-talk] Dispute over note closure

[Florian Lohoff]

Hola,

On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 11:48:51AM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I can see how someone's workflow includes "look at all new notes in my area"
> and if they don't know about the more sophisticated note viewers they will
> simply look at the OSM website where they are shown *all* notes - and then
> despair because they click on the same thing again that has been open for
> three years.
> 
> Ideally we could improve the note system to a point where (a) the community
> could "triage" notes into categories or tag and filter them, like "needs
> survey", "wait for summer", whatever, and (b) mappers could also mark notes
> "as read" for themselves. That would allow a much better collaborative
> approach to notes.

Yes please :) 

I'd like to have a "Subscribe" button without sending notifications to
other ( I could technically write "subscribe" into notes )

And i wrote myself the noteisdue bot which knows about "reopen:
$timestamp" or "notify $timestamp" which either closes and reopens
the note, or just sends a reminder to a note.

And using rss feeds for monitoring areas with "rss2email" for email
notifications of new notes.

So - as simple as notes are, its easy to put workflows around them to
handle a large number of notes pretty easy.

> In the mean time, we should point the "obsessive note closers" to tools like
> 
> https://antonkhorev.github.io/osm-note-viewer/
> https://ent8r.github.io/NotesReview/
> 
> and others from
> 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Notes/Applications_using_notes
> 
> which may help them with their workflow, without having to close all notes
> they can't immediately resolve.

Flo
-- 
Florian Lohoff                                                     f at zz.de
  Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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