Hi Laurent, On 2013-06-30 11:30, Laurent Savaëte wrote:
Wouldn't it be possible to make that whole process more seamless, and therefore get a much wider group of online mappers to help? If the task manager auto-assigned me a very limited task, say trace roads in a square 50x50m, using iD or a simplified version of it, we'd be bordering on microtasking. I would imagine the person requesting the mapping could define their needs (e.g. roads and buildings, or water streams, or collapsed buildings), set the log message for all edits done through the UI. All edits are then done through the web/iD so that micromappers only have to login and trace. If given a job like "trace all buildings in this square", they don't even need to tag anything, because the requester already defined the tags they need. Basically, the essence of the idea is to take everything the computer can take care of off the user's plate. Since the job would take about a minute, it would become a lot easier and less technical for a wider crowd to join and help. And let's dream a bit, with a bit of social media magic, maybe maps could be drawn in a few hours!
Your idea sounds very intriguing. It would require multiple passes for many current tasks, one for each object type. And after the base-map is built, it would need another pass to accumulate the more detailed attributes like road conditions.
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