Re: [Tagging] Long Tail ( was Removal of amenity from OSM tagging)

2015-05-19 Thread Simon Poole
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 19. Mai 2015 03:18:14 MESZ, johnw jo...@mac.com wrote: there’s no preset “I want to add a business” or “I want to add a park” tutorials that walk through the basics and hold your hand, bring up options and ask you natural language

Re: [Tagging] Long Tail ( was Removal of amenity from OSM tagging)

2015-05-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
johnw wrote: As far as I can tell, the differences between novices like me and more power users is a) using JSOM or similar, and b) using relations. that is an insanely high bar to jump over. I'll let you into another secret. Of the 5% of mappers doing 95% of the work... most are not

Re: [Tagging] Long Tail ( was Removal of amenity from OSM tagging)

2015-05-19 Thread Simon Poole
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 We don't have access to non - editing accounts, speculating on the composition of them is just that. We do know that not all of the roughly 1.5 million are spammers, See my two recent diary posts for more, On 19. Mai 2015 04:55:30 MESZ, Bryce

Re: [Tagging] Long Tail ( was Removal of amenity from OSM tagging)

2015-05-19 Thread pmailkeey .
On 19 May 2015 at 02:18, johnw jo...@mac.com wrote: On May 19, 2015, at 2:24 AM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: You might ask, so what is keeping people from editing? We don’t need to speculate. It’s easy to understand what is holding people back. It’s the same thing

Re: [Tagging] Long Tail ( was Removal of amenity from OSM tagging)

2015-05-19 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am 19.05.2015 um 01:47 schrieb Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com: How about if first edits caused some sort of flag that experienced users see, and can welcome and thank the new user for registering and contributing. This is possible now, but not really part of the standard tool set

Re: [Tagging] Long Tail ( was Removal of amenity from OSM tagging)

2015-05-19 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
On 19/05/2015, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: On 19. Mai 2015 03:18:14 MESZ, johnw jo...@mac.com wrote: there’s no preset “I want to add a business” or “I want to add a park” tutorials that walk through the basics and hold your hand, bring up options and ask you natural language

Re: [Tagging] Long Tail

2015-05-19 Thread Marc Gemis
If I would get such a survey from any of the tens of webapps for which I created a account that I used once, the answer would be something like I wanted to know what this service is about, and so I added my house. But this is not something I to do during my spare time for a longer period. I

Re: [Tagging] Long Tail ( was Removal of amenity from OSM tagging)

2015-05-19 Thread SomeoneElse
On 19/05/2015 11:50, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: Am 19.05.2015 um 01:47 schrieb Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com: How about if first edits caused some sort of flag that experienced users see, and can welcome and thank the new user for registering and contributing. This is possible now, but

Re: [Tagging] Long Tail

2015-05-19 Thread Daniel Koć
W dniu 19.05.2015 14:25, SomeoneElse napisał(a): Also, it's worth mentioning that despite people sometimes describing OSM as unfriendly the vast majority of changeset discussion comments, especially to new users, are very friendly and happy to help. That's why I want to have some hard data:

Re: [Tagging] Long Tail

2015-05-19 Thread Simon Poole
Am 19.05.2015 um 14:40 schrieb Daniel Koć: W dniu 19.05.2015 14:25, SomeoneElse napisał(a): Also, it's worth mentioning that despite people sometimes describing OSM as unfriendly the vast majority of changeset discussion comments, especially to new users, are very friendly and happy to

Re: [Tagging] Long Tail

2015-05-19 Thread Daniel Koć
W dniu 19.05.2015 16:48, Simon Poole napisał(a): There has been at least one study which gave indications why people stop contributing (main reason given was time). I don't think that we are This is really something we can't improve, sure. =} But even if it was as high as 75% (another wild

Re: [Tagging] Long Tail ( was Removal of amenity from OSM tagging)

2015-05-18 Thread Janko Mihelić
This talk by Richard Fairhurst suggests that 5% of mappers do 95% of work. So it's more important to find those few dedicated mappers and make their life easier, than to cater to the 95%. http://vimeopro.com/openstreetmapus/state-of-the-map-us-2013/video/68097488 Janko ned, 17. svi 2015. 07:43

Re: [Tagging] Long Tail

2015-05-18 Thread Daniel Koć
W dniu 18.05.2015 19:24, Clifford Snow napisał(a): On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Janko Mihelić jan...@gmail.com wrote: This talk by Richard Fairhurst suggests that 5% of mappers do 95% of work. So it's more important to find those few dedicated mappers and So I probably misunderstood the

Re: [Tagging] Long Tail ( was Removal of amenity from OSM tagging)

2015-05-18 Thread pmailkeey .
On 18 May 2015 at 18:24, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Janko Mihelić jan...@gmail.com wrote: This talk by Richard Fairhurst suggests that 5% of mappers do 95% of work. So it's more important to find those few dedicated mappers and make their

Re: [Tagging] Long Tail

2015-05-18 Thread Daniel Koć
W dniu 18.05.2015 20:02, pmailkeey . napisał(a): I disagree with this approach as it's targeted. Can we moderately safely assume new users edit with iD ? Can we not use that interface to offer a 'feedback' link available to all ? Even if it simply points to a dedicated wiki page for different

Re: [Tagging] Long Tail

2015-05-18 Thread pmailkeey .
On 18 May 2015 at 19:16, Daniel Koć daniel@koć.pl wrote: W dniu 18.05.2015 20:02, pmailkeey . napisał(a): I disagree with this approach as it's targeted. Can we moderately safely assume new users edit with iD ? Can we not use that interface to offer a 'feedback' link available to all ? Even

Re: [Tagging] Long Tail ( was Removal of amenity from OSM tagging)

2015-05-18 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: I invite each user to join our Meetup Group and invite them to contact me if they have any questions. The response rate is low. A survey could help us identify why they joined, how they want to use OSM and what

Re: [Tagging] Long Tail ( was Removal of amenity from OSM tagging)

2015-05-18 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 1:24 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Janko Mihelić jan...@gmail.com wrote: This talk by Richard Fairhurst suggests that 5% of mappers do 95% of work. So it's more important to find those few dedicated mappers and make

Re: [Tagging] Long Tail ( was Removal of amenity from OSM tagging)

2015-05-18 Thread johnw
On May 19, 2015, at 2:24 AM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: You might ask, so what is keeping people from editing? We don’t need to speculate. It’s easy to understand what is holding people back. It’s the same thing that hold people back from replacing the brakes on their

Re: [Tagging] Long Tail ( was Removal of amenity from OSM tagging)

2015-05-18 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: In the last week,11-May to 17-May, OSM increased the number of users [1] by 10,700. Think of the results if each of those new users were to add just one edit a week. You might ask, so what is keeping people from

Re: [Tagging] Long Tail ( was Removal of amenity from OSM tagging)

2015-05-18 Thread Clifford Snow
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote: Let's use human power, not spam power. How about if first edits caused some sort of flag that experienced users see, and can welcome and thank the new user for registering and contributing. This is possible now, but

Re: [Tagging] Long Tail ( was Removal of amenity from OSM tagging)

2015-05-16 Thread Clifford Snow
On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 4:46 AM, Daniel Koć daniel@koć.pl wrote: My long tail intuition are now supported by a scientific study called Characterizing the Heterogeneity of the OpenStreetMap Data and Community, and we know even how much advanced users are there! The abstract says: All three

Re: [Tagging] Long Tail ( was Removal of amenity from OSM tagging)

2015-05-16 Thread Marc Gemis
On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 6:54 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: I did wonder about the statement ... about 500 users in the core group of the OSM are highly networked in terms of collaboration. I wonder about that too. Someone compiled a list of the most active users on OSM