I somewhat agree with Ralf’s point about tile size making a difference. When I went to help mapping for the recent Mexican hurricane, there was a section marked priority. Some non-priority tiles were split and those were being worked on. Most tiles were not split and those were not being worked, priority or not. I split a couple of priority tiles and started working on them. To my surprise, the other split tiles were then being worked as well but still none of the non-split priority ones. I split a couple more and sure enough, those became actively worked on as well.
I used to think in terms of not splitting a tile unless it is massive but after that I realized it might not be a bad thing to split a few in a priority area just to get mappers started. Splitting an entire area down may be counterproductive since they can’t be “unsplit” for areas that are found to be easy mapping but if you find an area being passed over, try splitting a tile or two and see if that helps get it started. Jim From: Ralf Stephan [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, December 6, 2015 11:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [HOT] Projects on the HOT OSM Tasking Manager - lots of them The key for moving people from one-time to many-time contribution is motivation. I have seen volunteers suddenly much more motivated when I commented with more than a few words on a validation I did. But at least equally important is task and tile size. Large tasks are tackled more than a few times only by long-time contributors. Why have such big tasks when there is no hurry? I know I am more motivated if tile sizes are small. I'm sure it's more so with new contributors, so why have such large tiles per default, if they aren't completed anyway? Everything is made ever more casual, but I need 30-60 minutes to complete the smallest tile size to my satisfaction. Please increase the split count AND make the default tile size smaller, or you will never get enough completed tiles by people who want to invest rather 15 than minutes. Sorry for ranting
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