Enabling users to submit GPS traces is definitely in our to-do list,
unfortunately it didn't make it into the first iteration.
The position of the note is stored as soon as the user opens the report tab, so
the user can edit it for a while and when it is sent it's still the position
when he opened the menu that gets sent with the report. Including the heading
should be fairly simple, we have also planned to include the position accuracy
in the notes.
Thank you for your feedback.
//Erik
From: Christian Quest [mailto:cqu...@openstreetmap.fr]
Sent: den 21 augusti 2014 08:35
Cc: OpenStreetMap
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Incorrect speed limit anonymous notes - who is behind
that?
More (automatic) details in the notes could be useful.
For example: add the heading (something like N, NW, etc)...
Also make sure you're creating the note at the earliest position and not when
the report is saved/confirmed.
Have you considered sharing GPS traces ?
This would be another major datafeed to improve OSM data quality...
2014-08-19 16:47 GMT+02:00 p...@trigpoint.me.ukmailto:p...@trigpoint.me.uk:
Hi Eric
Thanks for your comments, I have been having a play with wisepilot and do
quite like it.
Pleased to see you are addressing the issues we have pointed out.
I did find the login to osm after i used it, but used with care I found it
excellent. It was a quiet time so I was able to stop where the limits changed
and was then able to use the notes to indicate the points to split the ways.
The fact I then used them helped, not so easy if it had been someone else.
Thanks
Phil (trigpoint )
On Tue Aug 19 2014 13:58:06 GMT+0100 (BST), Erik Mattsson wrote:
Hi my name is Erik and I work as a developer at Appello that owns the
Wisepilot application. In our latest release (5.1) we've included a first
iteration for a report component with the intention to make it easier for our
users to report map issues in OSM. Unfortunately the release for version 5.1
was pushed hard to be ready before the summer vacations which led to us not
having much personnel here monitoring the feedback we got during the summer
vacations. I'm very sorry we didn't get on the issues you've discussed in
this thread earlier.
Our intention with this report component is to try to increase the quality of
the navigation data in OSM by making it easier for our users to report issues
they see while driving. We've got quite a big chunk of users that aren't that
tech savvy so we want to make it easy for these users to contribute to the
map quality while using the application normally. These are users that feel
that it's too big a step to go to the OSM page and edit the data directly.
This was our first iteration and apparently we have quite a lot of issues to
address here.
All map notes users send go through our server to OSM and a copy is saved in
our database so we can track the usage internally. We currently allow
anonymous posting but since it seems like too many spam posts gets created
we will try to impose limits that encourages users to register at OSM more.
Users can sign in to OSM in the application and if they do the notes are
posted as their account. We are working towards increasing the quality of the
reports and any feedback from the community is very welcome.
We switched from commercial map data to OSM quite recently(Feb - March) and
since the switch we've been working on improving the OSM functionality in our
application. This component is just one part of that.
I've tried to read through most of the comments here and have made two small
fixes that will be rolled out on our servers later today. Those are to block
reports with 0 as speed and that we add a signature stating that the report
was sent through us. In the short term we will try to make client changes
that enforce some basic spam preventing rules and provides the users with
more information about what happens with their reports. We will also look
over the imperial/metric situation. As it is now we use the same system as
the user does within the application and we did the assumption that users
that drives in a country with imperial system also have the client set to
imperial. In a lot of cases this doesn't seem to be the case though, so this
needs to be addressed.
Please feel free to contact me or
supp...@appello.commailto:supp...@appello.com (or here on OSM-talk) with
feedback or questions about this component or the application in general. We
do not want to create a lot of garbage reports that just ends up cluttering
the database and never gets resolved, that's not beneficial for anyone.
Best regards,
--
Erik Mattsson
Software Engineer
Location: Appello | Göteborg | Sweden
Phone: +4673-636 10 68
Mail: erik.matts...@appello.commailto:erik.matts...@appello.com
Web: www.appello.comhttp://www.appello.com
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