stop asking for roof shape by default #3161
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correct answer is tricky, this quest type is flooding most areas, data is of minimal importance, in cities for many buildings it cannot be answered at all by survey from ground, typically answerable from aerial imagery, no important use of this data (even less after you skip entities not crediting OSM) fixes streetcomplete#3155 as now only people really interested in roof mapping will enable it
app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml
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| <string name="enable_quest_confirmation_title">Enable this quest type?</string> | |||
| <string name="default_disabled_msg_go_inside">This quest type is disabled by default because you will likely have to enter the place to be able to answer a quest of this type.</string> | |||
| <string name="default_disabled_msg_go_inside_regional_warning">This quest type is disabled by default because it is not useful in some regions and you will likely have to enter the place to be able to answer a quest of this type.</string> | |||
| <string name="default_disabled_msg_tricky_3d_rendering">This quest type is disabled by default because it is time-consuming, correct answer is not always obvious and data is used only in 3D rendering.</string> | |||
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How about this? I find it more important to mention that it would be more efficient in most cases to record this information from aerial imagery (=not with this app) than what the usages might be.
| <string name="default_disabled_msg_tricky_3d_rendering">This quest type is disabled by default because it is time-consuming, correct answer is not always obvious and data is used only in 3D rendering.</string> | |
| <string name="default_disabled_msg_tricky_3d_rendering">This quest type is disabled by default because the roof shapes are often not well visible from the street. This quest type is also quite time-consuming, while it is in most cases easier and more efficient to map this from aerial imagery at home.</string> |
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It misses the part that convinced me that it is a good idea (roof shapes not really matching to any selection), but maybe it is not needed to mention it...
Co-authored-by: Tobias Zwick <osm@westnordost.de>
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New reasoning misses the part that convinced me that it is a good idea (roof shapes not really matching to any selection), but maybe it is not needed to mention it - user is warned already... Though with new reasoning generic |
roof shape no longer enabled by default, so only people really interested in roof shapes will enable it so more false positives are OK to avoid some false negatives
I've not tried doing this from aerial imagery, but when I've been looking at other stuff via imagery, I'd be surprised if you could accurately differentiate a lot of these using aerial imagery, especially e.g. flat versus sloped or say the various Mansard styles versus a normal pitched roof.
At least the last one has a possible medically related benefit (although whether anyone is actually searching based on that is debatable). |
Co-authored-by: Peter Newman <peternewman@users.noreply.github.com>
correct answer is tricky, this quest type is flooding most areas, data is of minimal importance, in cities for many buildings it cannot be answered at all by survey from ground, typically answerable from aerial imagery, no important use of this data (even less after you skip entities not crediting OSM)
fixes #3155 as now only people really interested in roof mapping will enable it
For example: potential mappers were wasting enormous amount of effort on categorizing https://www.google.pl/maps/@50.1388172,19.9129097,3a,31.4y,232h,109.1t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shE0xPjaYZANvFQO1px9E_A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 (roof style popular in that village)
When I map with this quest enabled I have niggling thought "WTF I am doing with my time".
I am tempted to propose the same (disabling by default) with building level quest, power pole material and backrest quest.
Obviously, quest should remain as anyone interested in this kind of data can enable roof shape quest and enjoy an excellent SC interface.