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Reminder about open Notes #3477

Open Fizzie41 opened 2 years ago

Fizzie41 commented 2 years ago

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Wondering if there could be any way of modifying OSM Notes so that, if the Note hasn't been resolved after a set period e.g. 3 months, the system sends you a reminder that it is still open?

Naturally, this wouldn't work if the Note has been added by a non-mapper e.g. by somebody using OSMAND, but it would help with those Notes that have been created as an aide-memoir by active mappers, who have then forgotten about them! :-)

We're currently working through the Australian Notes & finding quite a few from very experienced mappers that were set-up a number of years ago to "check on this" but they're still sitting there, & in some cases, the person has openly admitted that yes, they forgot about it.

Thanks,

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tomhughes commented 2 years ago

Well the whole point of a note normally is for somebody that doesn't know the area to ask somebody that does to investigate so I'm not sure how reminding the reporter helps?

Fizzie41 commented 2 years ago

For those experienced mappers who have added a note to remind themselves to do "this" but have then forgotten about it.

mmd-osm commented 2 years ago

Why don’t you use existing services such as https://my-notes.osm-hr.org/ to find relevant notes.

That’s what’s been recommended on the wiki page: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Notes#Finding_your_notes

Source code is available. Tweak it as needed.

Fizzie41 commented 2 years ago

Because they're not my notes!

tordans commented 2 years ago

Well the whole point of a note normally is for somebody that doesn't know the area to ask somebody that does to investigate

I remember an analysis about OSM notes that found that many notes are closed by the same person that opened them. From this it was deduced that one key use case for notes are personal notes that the mapper herself then works on. Unfortunately I did not find the blogpost anymore.

That’s what’s been recommended on the wiki page: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Notes#Finding_your_notes Source code is available. Tweak it as needed.

That looks like a valid workaround. It would not send notifications, but one could easily highlight notes that are "older than 30 days" in the list.

Fizzie41 commented 2 years ago

Carrying on from highlighting aging notes, it would probably make sense to then automatically delete them altogether when they reach "12 months" old. Seriously, if they haven't been actioned by then, what is the likelihood of it still happening in the future?

tomhughes commented 2 years ago

Why not leave them? Are they harming you in some way?

Fizzie41 commented 2 years ago

No, but people keep complaining that there's too much cluttering up the database, so surely these must contribute to that clutter?

SomeoneElseOSM commented 2 years ago

Seriously, if they haven't been actioned by then, what is the likelihood of it still happening in the future?

In my experience, quite high. I regularly get update from notes I added months or years ago, including one just this morning.

danieldegroot2 commented 2 years ago

I remember an analysis about OSM notes that found that many notes are closed by the same person that opened them.

See joost schouppe/diary/43057 (found it mentioned in https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/5172 )