Hi Thomas, I think *most* of your requirements would be met with a specific instance of iD editor with customised presets (a very reduced set).
> The avantages of such an editor would be: > a) No bothering with tags, comments, etc. > b) Reduction of the chance of duplicates. Because no elements outside > the task elements are allowed. > c) Standardisation, through predefined tags and elements > d) Simple to use interface for users who want to help but dont want to > know the in depth details. ( Those who want to know will switch to > another editor anyway) > e) optional integrated help > f) automatic functionality like squared buildings This has been experimented previously for a particular project: See "open source project to map all logging roads across the Congo Basin Rainforest" http://loggingroads.org/ with its own integrated iD. I love the idea and it would be great to have a person/team to run some dry tests in HOT context. Cheers - althio On 6 June 2015 at 16:15, Thomas Tolloschek <cadde...@lumpaczik.org> wrote: > Hi all, > I am following the Hot Mailinglist for a while as passive reader and > since Nepal more active. > > These last weeks I was thinking a lot how to help new mappers while > achieving more standardisation and compareable output. > > In my opinion HOT needs a highly customizable and automatic configurable > editor. > Think of some sort of Potlatch where the items are automtically > restricted to the ones needed by a specific task. All the tags and > comments are automatically filled in. > For example: The user just needs to draw a polygon click on the house > button and save. No more confusion if building=yes or building=house > should bei used > All the presets are done by the Taskmanager and the defined task attributes. > > If you look at the various statistics, you will see that a high > percentage of the edits has been done in the first few days after the > desaster by new OSM users. > Many of them contribute only a few changesets or less. I was asking > myself why this happened. > Was there not enough help und information? I dont think so. > I think that the informations have been too much and too spread for > first time users. And l think that many of them where overwhelmed by all > the things they have to think about. > > So why not moving the rule and format stuff into an editor? > > The avantages of such an editor would be: > a) No bothering with tags, comments, etc. > b) Reduction of the chance of duplicates. Because no elements outside > the task elements are allowed. > c) Standardisation, through predefined tags and elements > d) Simple to use interface for users who want to help but dont want to > know the in depth details. ( Those who want to know will switch to > another editor anyway) > e) optional integrated help > f) automatic functionality like squared buildings > > I know this does not help for the Nepal crisis mapping but I think this > idea is worth a thought for improving the quality of data in the future > while motivating new users to map more and therefore speeding up the > completion of HOT tasks. > > Kind regards > Thomas > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
