I know that I've made changes to GNIS nodes in areas that I map in. Will nodes that have been modified since import be excluded from the microtasker?
Cheers, Adam On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Josh Doe <j...@joshdoe.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Greg Troxel <g...@ir.bbn.com> wrote: >> >> On that matter -- I've been working on an idea for a GNIS microtasking >> platform. What it would do is: >> >> * Show a random non-improved GNIS point in your neighborhood - name + >> map >> >> * Allow you to 1) drag the point to the correct location, 2) flag it >> as no longer existing or 3) flag it as incorrect name. >> >> * The collected improvements would be pushed to OpenStreetBugs or >> something similar. >> >> That makes sense, but how do you deal with logging the modifier of the >> data - is this a webapp, and do people log in with OAuth? > > I think the best microtasking apps are ones that don't require any > registration, as you want the lowest barrier to entry. This of course > means the user won't be making the actual changes to OSM, but rather > an OSM contributor will review and make the changes themselves. > Alternatively, you could create an OSM account for the "microtasking > platform" (I think Wheelmap.org does this), and wait for every point > to be corrected at least N (perhaps 2 or 3) times, and to be within > some tolerance of each other (perhaps 10 meters) (I believe the Bing > microtasking app does this for building entrances). > > It would be nice to also allow OSM registered users to make the > changes immediately, you just don't want to force everyone to create > an account. > >> I wonder if you can make this a JOSM plugin. > > That would be nice, but it's definitely no longer a microtasking app, > at least not in my view (meaning it's not a web app). > > -Josh > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
