Re: [HOT] small tiles
I am pretty sure some people at University of Heidelberg - Disaster Mappers - Missing Maps put some serious thoughts on the topic of tile sizes and general procedures. Maybe you reach out and see what they can share. - althio On 5 March 2016 at 19:23, Russell Deffner <russell.deff...@hotosm.org> wrote: > Hi Dan, yeah – I’ve been talking with folks and watching the ‘success rate’ > of all the front page projects and to add some commentary – it does seem > there is a ‘magic size’ for people to both feel like they’re getting stuff > done and a fine balance of not too big for validators to easily go-for, but > not so small that you are spending more time locking/pushing validate then > looking at tiles. > > > > It seems like roughly 1 kilometer square tiles for urban areas and 2-4 km^2 > for rural seems to be that magic size, I see those size projects going like > hot-cakes. Apologies for a few of those recent Fiji projects – where it got > a little more dense and the island narrowed/got a little funky for ‘chopping > into projects’ I was actually more thinking about number of tiles as the > projects beforehand seemed to be ‘magic numbered’ from about 200-300 tiles > on creation. So, anyway – thanks for the feedback, this is where project > creation becomes a bit more ‘art’ as you can’t just tell the TM to ‘make as > many squares necessary to be 1 km^2’ (which to any devs out there, would be > nice feature :) > > > > More Fiji stuff coming, just been busy the last couple of days (and trying > to knock out validation on the last couple); > > =Russ > > > > From: Daniel Specht [mailto:danspe...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, March 04, 2016 7:48 PM > To: hot@openstreetmap.org > Subject: [HOT] small tiles > > > > The tile size used for the Fiji projects is great for residential areas. > It's a lot more rewarding to be able to check off so many as done. If the > tiles were much bigger people would get discouraged or sloppy. > > > > But outside the residential areas there are a lot of tiles with no features, > which wastes time loading tiles. I think the solution is to have bigger > tiles, maybe twice the length, and to split the tiles which are in > residential areas into 4 parts. > > > > -- > > Dan > > > ___ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] small tiles
Hi Dan, yeah – I’ve been talking with folks and watching the ‘success rate’ of all the front page projects and to add some commentary – it does seem there is a ‘magic size’ for people to both feel like they’re getting stuff done and a fine balance of not too big for validators to easily go-for, but not so small that you are spending more time locking/pushing validate then looking at tiles. It seems like roughly 1 kilometer square tiles for urban areas and 2-4 km^2 for rural seems to be that magic size, I see those size projects going like hot-cakes. Apologies for a few of those recent Fiji projects – where it got a little more dense and the island narrowed/got a little funky for ‘chopping into projects’ I was actually more thinking about number of tiles as the projects beforehand seemed to be ‘magic numbered’ from about 200-300 tiles on creation. So, anyway – thanks for the feedback, this is where project creation becomes a bit more ‘art’ as you can’t just tell the TM to ‘make as many squares necessary to be 1 km^2’ (which to any devs out there, would be nice feature :) More Fiji stuff coming, just been busy the last couple of days (and trying to knock out validation on the last couple); =Russ From: Daniel Specht [mailto:danspe...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 04, 2016 7:48 PM To: hot@openstreetmap.org Subject: [HOT] small tiles The tile size used for the Fiji projects is great for residential areas. It's a lot more rewarding to be able to check off so many as done. If the tiles were much bigger people would get discouraged or sloppy. But outside the residential areas there are a lot of tiles with no features, which wastes time loading tiles. I think the solution is to have bigger tiles, maybe twice the length, and to split the tiles which are in residential areas into 4 parts. -- Dan ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
[HOT] small tiles
The tile size used for the Fiji projects is great for residential areas. It's a lot more rewarding to be able to check off so many as done. If the tiles were much bigger people would get discouraged or sloppy. But outside the residential areas there are a lot of tiles with no features, which wastes time loading tiles. I think the solution is to have bigger tiles, maybe twice the length, and to split the tiles which are in residential areas into 4 parts. -- Dan ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
