OpenStreetMap
Report a problem
English телендә SimonPoole19 January 2014 баҫылып сыҡты. Һуңғы яңыртыуҙар 20 January 2014.One of the issues the OSM site has had, is that we have been missing a trivial “Report a problem” / “Fix the map” landing page on openstreetmap.org. Not that it was in any way difficult to do, we just had never added one. I suspect that the absence of such a page is one of the reasons why the OSMF board now and then gets complaints about things missing on the map to its e-mail addresses and even more times the DCMA take down form is misused for such purposes.
Now, with the redesign live and google making the concept popular the time was ripe to add one at last, nothing fancy, but linking to OSM in the fashion below is a lot better than simply dumping people on our main page:
osm.org/fixthemap?lat=47.39756&lon=8.3976
(a zoom parameter will work too).
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straguтарафынан19 January 2014 cәғәт 22:30көндө ҡаралған
It’s a shame there is no obvious direct link to this page on the main page. How did you get to it?
SimonPooleтарафынан19 January 2014 cәғәт 22:36көндө ҡаралған
Note quite sure why you would want to get to it from the OSM main page, the page is directed to people that have seen or believe to have seen a concrete issue and not to “normal” visitors.
bolomapтарафынан20 January 2014 cәғәт 03:02көндө ҡаралған
Maybe I also don’t understand correctly but this does not seem to fix the issue you list.
From what I can tell the issue is that people are accustomed to a ‘report a problem’ / ‘fix the map’ link on a map. For one reason or another they do not realise you can edit the map themselves so go out of their way to seek out a contact form to kindly let OSM know.
The current link is helpful at replying to these people but why not just address the issue at the source? This method currently wastes both OSM and these ‘helpers’ time, reducing the chance of getting there issue addressed.
I believe that on the homepage there should be a ‘found an error’/’fix a map’ link when users are not signed in. This would avoid cluttering the homepage for ‘normal’/registered users and further serves to encourage participation to new users.
I feel the new design is a huge step in usability especially for new users but you can never put too much polish on the little things.
SimonPooleтарафынан20 January 2014 cәғәт 09:17көндө ҡаралған
@bolomap the landing page is for third parties to link to, so it needs to give a short explanation what the project is about, how to help and for those that have a complaint that is not really map related pointers to the correct places to address.
Vincent de Philyтарафынан20 January 2014 cәғәт 11:25көндө ҡаралған
Even though it is redundant, I still think it’d be a good idea to link to that page from the main page (next to the attribution/donation links), because it makes it more discoverable :
CloCkWeRXтарафынан20 January 2014 cәғәт 15:20көндө ҡаралған
The ‘add a note’ control could really use a tooltip or similar that says “Add a note… about a problem”