Consider 'task templates' to improve branding, quality of instructions, etc

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There tend to be a few main styles of mapping that are in widespread use, and sometimes the written descriptions varying in quality/consistency.

For example, http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/711 forgot to explicitly mention that under construction buildings were useful to capture, because the creator had made several other projects - it was only half way through that it was realised some data was not being traced, and the instructions amended.

It would be good to see some 'smart defaults' and prompts for certain project categories.

Right now for the ebola response, and for mapping of Tacloban the main detail seemed to focus around the below:

• Road mapping (initial road network, identify villages)
  • Are there special instructions, like Highways Africa?
  • Standard clause about landuse=residential for village tagging
  • etc
• Road mapping (detail, paths and connectivity, identify and connect villages)
  • As above
• Building mapping
  • Building tools plugin for JOSM/How to square buildings
  • Do under construction buildings need to be mapped?

It would be good if there was a 'project type' selection that prompted you with many of these questions and prefilled data.

The other aspect is to explain why it's important, as well as how it is useful. http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/711 does a good job in providing the why it is important, but not as good of a job in explaining how it is useful.

Being able to choose from a few presets around why the activity is helpful would be good. For example:

• Disease response - Contact tracing. We need to identify villages, roads and individual buildings, so that teams on the ground can use GPS tools to navigate from A to B. Identifying contacts of sick individuals assists in establishing an effective quarantine.
• Natural disaster response - flood, earthquake, etc - Road tracing is important to plan out where and how aid resources can be deployed, as well as for aid workers to navigate from A to B.
• Flooding/flood preparation - mapping waterways helps because it can be combined with terrain data, to understand the most impacted areas and allow resource prioritisation.

[CloCkWeRX]

Terrible mockup, having never actually seen the current project editing/creation tools.

Arrows depict the various options pre-filling some of the templated seconds.