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MapRoulette

Lively discussion about MapRoulette on the Community Forum. What do you think? community.openstreetmap.org/t/

OpenStreetMap Community Forum · MapRoulette CritiqueI’ve been calling tools like Maproulette “stochastic organized editing”. They tell you in words to pay attention to local mapping and verify and be careful, but in their design they tell you “just quickly check if what we tell you is right (it probably is)”. As an example, a while back I had to correct some Maproulette “organize brands” users who retagged some Popeye’s in Canada as fast food (example). These were supplements stores and tagged as such. Should the tool’s users have gone in a reg...
Aug 07, 2024, 01:30 AM·Public·Elk
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Joost Schouppe

@MapRoulette I like some of the suggestions (publicly show owner, allow private messaging to owner, make it possible for flags to block challenges until discussed). Doing a call for a challenge vetting group could also help.
My own pet peeve would be that instructions should get more space in the interface, and have a clear visual cue if shown incompletely.

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