Melanie,
Thank you for your message. It's good to know that research is taking
place at such a level.
It would be good if you, and perhaps other members of your group, joined
the HOT Training Working Group.
The wiki entry concerning the Training WG is
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Working_groups/Training
& the Hackpad containing discussion points is at
https://hackpad.com/Discussion-ideas-for-HOTs-training-working-group-mYgJQEbueIi
Sharing & pooling our resources would be ideal.
Regards
Nick
(Tallguy)
On 10/09/14 16:20, Melanie Eckle wrote:
Dear Nick,
my name is Melanie, I am reserach assistant at the GIScience
department of the Heidelberg University/ Germany. Our group is focused
on research in the area of Volunteered Geographic Information. One of
the subjects we are investigating at the moment is to find ways to
improve the quality/ accuracy of remote mapping by volunteers. With
this background, I was very happy to read your post in the mailing
list, since your idea fits very well with our efforts.
I could not agree more and would be very happy to contribute. I have
been mapping for quite some time, conducted trainings with new mappers
and have been working on new possibilities to facilitate the mapping
process for beginners. I developed some training material for that
purpose, showing the most important steps to be taken before mapping,
common errors that occur during mapping and introducing some
shortcuts. Working in Kathmandu with KathmanduLivingLabs, I also
discovered the problems remote mappers got identifying unknown
features in foreign countries. A problems that often leads to wrong
tagging or digitization. On this account, the second part of the
training material gives an overview of the most common features that
can be found in the country that the mapping is conducted in (in this
case Nepal) and the right tags that need to be used (Nepal taggging
guidelines). I am actually testing the use of the material and already
got good results and very positive feedback by the new mappers that
used the training dossier.
I am happy to share the material if you are interested and would love
to find out more about your project idea.
Kind regards
Melanie
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