[okfn-labs] Pybossa UI question: navigating from app description to app?

Mon Oct 15 08:51:03 UTC 2012

Hi everyone,

I created Urban Parks as a demo application to show how you can use PyBossa
to do geo-coding tasks. While I agree that the goal of Urban Parks is not
meaningful, its only purpose is to serve as a template for developing new
apps that could use OpenLayers as a base to support this type of
application. Just to give you an idea, Urban Parks was part of the initial
code base for ForestWatchers where we actually do interesting things :-)

I've fixed the link issue, so right now everything looks like Feynman's
Flowers. I hope this "link" helps, but as you have already said PyBossa has
more than this small UX and UI problem (there is an issue about this,
check issue
164 <https://github.com/PyBossa/pybossa/issues/164>). As this Thursday we
will have a meeting to start drafting a roadmap for the software, let's
wait this week before adding any further changes into the UI and UX and see
how we should focus our efforts. In the meantime I'm going to remove all
the demo applications from the front-page and leave the Feynman's Flowers
as it is the only one for the moment fully done: it has a full tutorial, it
is a real application and it is waiting to finish all its tasks.

I hope I've explained a bit more the background of this app and that you
can understand that this app is just a demo application, nothing else :-)

Cheers,

Daniel

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Sam Smith <sam.smith at okfn.org> wrote:

> I noticed the absence of that link too, I intend to do a design for this
> page at some point.. but in the mean time, a link would be good.
>
> Probably worth adding, I too was confused by the urban parks app. I found
> I was just guessing there was a park because there was an expanse of
> green.. surely a computer can do / already has done that just as well?
>
>
>
> On 12 October 2012 11:15, Tom Rees <tom.rees at okfn.org> wrote:
>
>> As a user I was always confused by the urban parks thing as well. How do
>> I tell if it's just somebody's large garden?
>> Maybe an app where sports teams need to be mapped to their home ground.
>> It might be a little more engaging (even if not terribly useful?)
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Gregor Aisch <gregor.aisch at okfn.org>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I can't find the link either.
>>>
>>> Btw, I think that the urban parks demo is a really really silly
>>> showcase. I mean, you can run a simple query on the OSM data to get a list
>>> of all urban parks in the world. You know, that's why it's called *Open*StreetMap!
>>> :)
>>>
>>> I know that this showcases is only intended to demonstrate the use of
>>> maps, but there must be better, and more relevant examples.
>>>
>>> What about geocoding? That's something journalists have to do quite
>>> often. The automatic geocoding provided by API such as Google Geocoding is
>>> a good start but need to be checked by humans for maximum data quality.
>>> That would be a great and useful showcase..
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Gregor
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Am 12.10.2012 um 11:42 schrieb Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>:
>>>
>>> Perhaps I'm missing something, but can't seem to find a way to
>>> navigate from app description page to app itself?
>>>
>>> E.g. can't find a link from:
>>>
>>> http://pybossa.com/app/urbanpark
>>>
>>> to:
>>>
>>> http://pybossa.com/app/urbanpark/newtask
>>>
>>> J.
>>>
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