OJ W <ojwlists <at> googlemail.com> writes: >Perhaps openstreetbugs (or whatever issue-tracking system we end up >with) could have an "ask for help" option that would publish a >question for Extraordinaries to answer by visiting the location?
Yes - the bug report would need to be one that's understandable to newcomers and reasonably specific. Good: At what point does Major Road change name to Minor Road? What is the exact location of this post box? Bad: This road is one-way [a request to update OSM database, not to survey] Need to map this area [too general] Don't know what this means [a question about the database not the real world] The 'Bad' things are quite valid bugs but they aren't something to push out to low-level contributors. So OpenStreetBugs would need a box to tick 'this bug is a simple query about the real world'. Further, the low-level volunteer could just type in their reply rather than be expected to use Potlatch etc. (We can get them addicted to that later!) Then a more advanced OSM contributor would see the question and answer in OpenStreetBugs and update the database. -- Ed Avis <e...@waniasset.com> _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk