Gregory's ServerWe are looking for better UX ideas on how to tell our new users about OpenStreetMap and teach them to add/edit map data in osm.org instead of complaining to us. Please share your thoughts in this Github issue: https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/issues/5686
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@partizan that‘s the idea. There was an issue about it. But people don’t read long text :) so it should be very clear and succinct. @organicmaps Btw, where are people complaining to you about missing data? Maybe info should be added somewhere in that area @organicmaps you can start by not asking for ideas on GitHub because newer users can’t sign up and post public without GitHub asking for more personal information about you. @firecat we need to collect and process ideas in one place. As we‘re a small team, there’s not enough resources to do it in a different way. Your donations may change the approach ;-) @firecat of course. But then we need to update github issues ourselves. Instead of fixing bugs or introducing new features ;-) @organicmaps the main problem is GitHub doesn’t allow public access and requires a account with very personal details of their life. You won’t be getting any feedback from normal people and high level threats from people.  @organicmaps I made a street name correction to OSM and the correction was quickly picked up by both Google and Apple. So I definitely see the value with this. I could see a process of defining a type of change better (“add” verses “correct”), and that the change is in fact something that will be seen globally and not just on our own device. Seems subtle, but a don’t think folks understand how much they can really contribute to OSM. @organicmaps one of these on every screen that might have results? (pardon my ignorance if app already does) @organicmaps for sure. anything from it's a link to a explanation page on up. key is the affordance is already there right when the user pain occurs. @livcomp yep! How to detect if user is looking on the map and doesn’t see something expected? @organicmaps Don't have to! Keep a happy little 'See an error?' floating in some corner, so it's Already On Screen when the pain occurs. |
@organicmaps i'd suggest updating this screen to something like this:
> [Beautiful new icon with ? on a map]
> We haven't found a location matching this name.
> Our app uses community driven data from OpenStreetMap project, and you can add missing place after you log in with osm account
> Read more about adding new place here ...