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Requirements

The annotation website https://nlmaps.gorgor.de/ is meant to be used with a recent version of a modern Browser. That means Firefox, Safari, Chrome or any other Chromium derivates (such as recent MS Edge). It is not optimized for mobile use, so please use a desktop computer.

Principles

In essence, we need a dataset that fulfills three criteria:

  1. The natural language (NL) queries should be linguistically diverse, i.e. a mix of short search-engine-style queries and full questions like you would ask another person.

  2. The queries should cover a large part of the commonly used OpenStreetmap (OSM) tags that are relevant for our system.

  3. The queries should cover the most useful OSM tags in particular depth. E.g., asking for restaurants and shops is arguably one of the most useful areas.

Linguistic Diversity

When entering queries, please diversify your language use. Valid variations of the same question include:

However, keep it natural and don’t make your queries artificially complex. If a particular query style comes more natural to you, it’s alright to use it more often. Just make sure that not all of you queries look alike.

Similarly, avoid using the same place name more than a couple of times. Also use place names in other languages than German and English, e.g. České Budějovice or València.

It’s very important that you don’t only base your wording on the name of the OSM tags. E.g., for highway=speed_camera you can ask for a speed camera, but you can also ask for a speed trap or a radar trap.

Tag Diversity and Depth

Take a quick look at the most important OSM features to get a feel for what things you can ask for in OSM. You can use this as an inspiration if you run out of ideas about what to ask. Choose tags that you find relevant.

Beware of the building=* tag! It is used to tag what the building was built as, not to tag its current use. E.g., a place tagged building=church may not be a church anymore; churches are tagged as amenity=place_of_worship + religion=christian. If in doubt, don’t use the building=* tag, at all.

In general, enter more than one query for a chosen tag or tag combination, especially if the system fails answering the query correctly.

Most relevant keys

Please enter at least the given amount of queries for each of the following. The linked wiki pages give you a feel for what the most common tags in each category are.

Some tags can and should be combined. E.g., use shop=massage,wheelchair=yes for wheelchair-accessible massage shops or club=sport,sport=tennis for tennis clubs. But use only sport=tennis if you’re just asking for places to play tennis at.

Especially the cuisine=* and diet:*=* tags can be combined productively. Some examples:

Miscellaneous

Counting Annotations

A natural language query and the corresponding MRL are considered one complete annotation. If you don’t know what the correct MRL looks like, you can choose “Wrong, but I cannot help” and it will be considered an incomplete annotation. This is still valuable; four incomplete annotations will count as one complete annotation.

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