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 questions to help you learn how to >>tag things. a person who just wants to add a node tag can have very >>little asked of them, and the node placed in the correct spot. another >>mapper can flesh it out later. > > I've many times suggested that if we really want to exploit the long tail we > need "wizards" not "simple" editors (I'm not sure that the later actually > exists). We shoudn't kid ourselves though, we are unlikely to squezze a > higher conversion rate to reasonably active mappers out of our audience > that way, just a longer long tail. Any way we do it we are asking for people > to spend more/a significant amount of time contributing and that will only > happen if somebody is actually interested in the subject matter.
http://onosm.org/ is IMHO not a bad answer to that. Maybe it could get integrated on osm.org, alongside a collection of other special-purpose wizards for various usecases. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
