UX

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Holding page for OSM User Experience thoughts. See related blog post 'OSM User Testing' Feel free to chime in etc.

Editing UX test tasks for newbies

Add a Street

A street is missing in your neighborhood. Add the street, the street name and indicate if the street is one way or not.

Add a Point of Interest

Your favourite restaurant is missing from OpenStreetMap. Add it.

Find a tag for Feature XYZ

Your local park is in OpenStreetMap already but the public toilets are not shown on the map. Add the public toilets in your park.

Correct a Street name

Your neighboring street is on OpenStreetMap but the name is incorrect. Fix it.

Add a business

There is a new grocery store in town. Add it to the map.

Add an Address

Your new grocery store is on the map. Make sure OpenStreetMap knows the address of the grocery store.

Upload a GPS trace from a walk or a cycle ride

How should parts that are completely new be added to the map (what tags etc.)? What about parts that overlap with existing features on the map?

What to do if something on the map seems to be in the wrong place

The town library is shown on the north east corner of an intersection but it belongs on the southwest corner. Fix it.

Social OSM tasks for newbies

See also

• Web front end - Notes on the design of the website
  • Front Page Design (outdated) - Notes and ideas for redesign of the openstreetmap.org homepage.
• Foundation/User Experience Working Group - Idea for a UX working group