MapRoulette: the micro-tasking tool for OpenStreetMap
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MapRoulette: the micro-tasking tool for OpenStreetMap
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Re: MapRoulette: the micro-tasking tool for OpenStreetMap
#2I like the idea, but these tasks seem incomprehensible. I looked at some near me, and one is about traffic lights at an intersection that doesn't have traffic lights, and the others just say "Highway not on ground and no tunnel, bridge or covered tags" under "Instructions" but they're not highways or roads at all (though I guess they are on the ground).
Re: MapRoulette: the micro-tasking tool for OpenStreetMap
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#4The map widget doesn’t appear properly on iOS Safari, unfortunately
Re: MapRoulette: the micro-tasking tool for OpenStreetMap
#5For something called MapRoulette, I expected a much simpler UX, e.g. a big button that gave you a random task in your area.
Re: MapRoulette: the micro-tasking tool for OpenStreetMap
#6I like the idea, but these tasks seem incomprehensible. I looked at some near me, and one is about traffic lights at an intersection that doesn't have traffic lights, and the others just say "Highway not on ground and no tunnel, bridge or covered tags" under "Instructions" but they're not highways or roads at all (though I guess they are on the ground).
I agree, I looked around my area and found a task on top of a parking lot that says: "These elements have rare (<20 uses) parking=* values." What does this mean? Does it mean that the parking log is marked to have a "<20" value when the value should be a number instead of a string? Obviously I'm not going to go inside the car park and count all the park slots, there could be hundreds!
Re: MapRoulette: the micro-tasking tool for OpenStreetMap
#7The problem with maproulette is the same thing that makes it fun: the gamification.
Some people value imaginary internet points so highly, they edit OSM willy-nilly to make it conform to maproulette, disregarding ground truth, not checking if the tasks analysis is complete and mapping slightly wrong around the world.
This is mad MUCH worse by the fact that the default setting in maproulette is that when you finish a task, the system takes you to an another one at a random position in the world. I have no idea, for instance, if this Italian restaurant in Minsk has a correct web address (or if it exists at all), but I'm incentivized to jut remove the tag and get those sweet points.
Re: MapRoulette: the micro-tasking tool for OpenStreetMap
#8What does this accomplish that StreetComplete does not?
Re: MapRoulette: the micro-tasking tool for OpenStreetMap
#9I like the idea, but these tasks seem incomprehensible. I looked at some near me, and one is about traffic lights at an intersection that doesn't have traffic lights, and the others just say "Highway not on ground and no tunnel, bridge or covered tags" under "Instructions" but they're not highways or roads at all (though I guess they are on the ground).
I agree, I looked around my area and found a task on top of a parking lot that says: "These elements have rare (<20 uses) parking=* values." What does this mean? Does it mean that the parking log is marked to have a "<20" value when the value should be a number instead of a string? Obviously I'm not going to go inside the car park and count all the park slots, there could be hundreds!
That likely means something like "This is using a rare value for the key 'parking'. It might be incorrect, check that it's not supposed to be a more common value".
In other words, it's trying to catch things like typos.
Re: MapRoulette: the micro-tasking tool for OpenStreetMap
#10See also: https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete
Or "Go Map!!" for iOS, which has a a similar quest mode: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Go_Map!!