Susan feel free to edit the instructions of the Canaan task number 870. Arc made a gist tracing guide to try and help with gifs and lit of pictures.
If the final result could be in markdown that would help the tasking manager admins a lot. Dale On Mon, Jun 29, 2015, 7:18 PM Suzan Reed <su...@suzanreed.com> wrote: > The instructions are not always clear, often have information newcomers > don't understand, and are formatted in a way that make them difficult to > grasp. > > People read information on the web differently than they do on paper. > Short paragraphs of one sentence, lots of space, bulleted lists all work > well. > > I've been thinking this for a few days. I'm adept in web usability > (taught/lectured on the subject) and I think it's possible to put together > a form activators could fill in that would make the instructions clearer. > Instructions or a wiki on how to write for an activation could be helpful. > > I could edit one for clarity, but would need someone to volunteer their > activation instructions so I know I'm not going to offend. ;-) > > Cheers! > > Suzan > > > On Jun 29, 2015, at 3:12 PM, john whelan wrote: > > I think if we get something like Nepal crop up again that this would be an > excellent introduction to HOT mapping and would help on the data quality > side. However we have around a thousand open projects in HOT at the moment > and making an intro like this for each one would take quite a bit of effort. > > Is the HOT training group aware of these? > > Thanks John > > On 29 June 2015 at 15:53, pierre mirlesse <pierre_mirle...@yahoo.com> > wrote: > John whelan mentioned in his note: "If you put something in the task > instructions then people have to read them > and there seems to be a tendency to just map first and read the > instructions afterwards" > > inputs: maybe the descriptions and instructions format of the Tasking > Manager a little too "dry" for new mappers. > maybe a short video conversation/intro 2-3 mn about Why the task was > created, by Whom and how it will be used > could insure more "stickyness/interest" of new mappers to the task and > promoting reading it's description. > John if interested to test this out... let me know. Here are some of the > intros I've done for other tasks: > How To Map in Openstreetmap : Basic Training ID Editor HOT Task #1090 > > > > > > > > > How To Map in Openstreetmap : Basic Training ID Editor... > View on www.youtube.com > Preview by Yahoo > > How To Map in OSM : Advanced training with JOSM HOT Task #1062 > > > > > > > > > How To Map in OSM : Advanced training with JOSM HO... > View on www.youtube.com > Preview by Yahoo > > > Pierre > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >
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