[MapRoulette] Request for comments: Liking and Flagging challenges

[PierZen]

@hfs

All the conceptual stuff is explained in the end user documentation? Documentation | MapRoulette Docs.

Thanks for the documentation.

@hfs

MapRoulette and OSM are not integrated at this point. A user looks at a task in MapRoulette and locks it. They do the OSM edit normally in an editor and upload the changeset. OSM and the changeset don’t “know” anything about MapRoulette. There’s a suggested changeset comment, but users are of course free to change it – most don’t. And then you go back to MapRoulette to mark the task as completed. You could also submit several changesets for one task. Or none at all if you fixed the task already yesterday.

A maproulette hashtag is not sufficient. I prefer solution like for the HOT Tasking manager where the host key is added to the tags with information about the project + map/validate info (HOT Tasking Manager). MapRoulette and OSM could be better integrated providing details with the host key (example: https://maproulette.org/api/v2/challenge/77/nextTask/53906) . This would let the comment key for the osm contributor.

[SomeoneElse (Andy Townsend)]

@hfs

So there’s no direct way to find the changesets that came out of a challenge.

That’s a shame. Up til now I’ve been looking for changesets with a changeset comment that matches the suggested comment in maproulette. An example changeset is here, but that seem unrelated to the maproulette description, even though the comment mathes - presumably because “#fix-osmcha-detection #maproulette” matches lots of chllenges.

[Mateusz_Konieczny]

@SomeoneElse

Up til now I’ve been looking for changesets with a changeset comment that matches the suggested comment in maproulette.

note that it works only when person creating MR thing decided to fill default changeset comment and people editing based on MR instructions have not deleted/replaced it

[Mateusz_Konieczny]

@mvexel

Flagging is a way to signal that you think the challenge is confusing / causing bad edits in OSM.

What is happening once challenge is flagged and report issue is created at github?

As far as I can see at Issues · maproulette/challenge-reports · GitHub reporting has no effect whatsoever.

[mvexel (Martijn van Exel)]

At this moment it’s self-governing. The challenge maintainer gets an email with the github link to engage with the person who added the flag. From there on it’s a public discussion between the author and the flagger. If that does not work out there’s the Maproulette team (basically, me) and the DWG to mediate, but capacity of both is limited.

If people want to step up and help out with building a process and volunteer as “moderators” that would be great.

[ivanbranco]

@mvexel

At this moment it’s self-governing. The challenge maintainer gets an email

They get emails for challenge comments as well, and a flag usually arrives when comments are not addressed. If someone ignored the comments, will ignore the flag as well probably.

I think a solution could be to immediately make a challenge non-discoverable when flagged, if the creator wants it to be discoverable again, they have to finally address the discussion.

[mvexel (Martijn van Exel)]

@ivanbranco

I think a solution could be to immediately make a challenge non-discoverable when flagged, if the creator wants it to be discoverable again, they have to finally address the discussion.

This is something we’re considering. Thanks for the suggestion.