Things Lab https://www.facebook.com/ThingsLabTirana
Is the group that I am supporting now, one of the member of the lab wants to work with OSM. I will put him in contact with you. On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Mike Dupont <[email protected] > wrote: > Howdy, > > check out openlabs.com which is a group who is working on open source and > knowledge projects in Albania. > > in 2010 I was working on the flooding in Shokder, work page here with some > non dead links. > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/AlbanianFloodingCrisisCamp > > We have a mailing list with many users from Kosovo on it, there might be > some from Albania. > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gis-kosova > > mike > > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 4:54 AM, malenki <[email protected]> wrote: > >> About a month ago I stumbled over some beginners mapping in Tirana >> (capital of Albania). >> Though the edits were not too useful they were tagged with >> #hotosm-project-926 #PeaceCorps #PeaceCorpsAlbania source=Bing >> so I thought to do nothing for the time being since the connected task >> http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/926 said >> | The Peace Corps Program in Tirana is training Volunteers […] >> But after a month the data isn't changed/corrected and my message¹ to >> the creator of the task sent on 24th of March still is not answered. >> >> A mentioning of the issue on IRC on March 28th also don't give results. >> >> My view of the issue is: >> Which worth has a "training" when the trainees don't get feedback? >> The creator of the task (which I assume the trainer) hasn't made a >> single edit in Albania. >> The data created during the task wasn't enhanced after creating it. >> >> Now I'd like to hand over the "issue" to people with more experience >> in HOT. >> >> Regards >> Thomas >> >> ¹ The message I sent: >> >> Mirëdita [Albanian "good day"] $User >> >> you created HOT task 926¹ for training volunteers in Albania. >> >> I welcome people mapping a country I really like and of course HOT is >> an invaluable program. But when you are /training/ people you should >> also teach them how to do stuff and give feedback to what they mapped. >> Else they may produce just a lot of unhelpful data. >> >> I didn't investigate on purpose but so far I stumbled over following >> issues: >> >> duplicate houses (mapped by the same mapper >> https://www.osm.org/#map=21/41.3330021/19.7839432 >> houses with offset to its basements >> https://www.osm.org/#map=20/41.333141/19.782218 >> houses drawn over highways >> https://www.osm.org/#map=20/41.333141/19.782218 >> ways of outlines only tagged with area=yes e.g.: >> https://www.osm.org/#map=19/41.334339/19.788208 >> In Tirana I found 103 ways which were tagged this way and >> belong to HOT task 926. >> >> I also found a highway=road dragged over a correct highway which I just >> corrected in the hope that the other stuff would be vanish due to a >> training supervisor - which didn't happen. >> >> Please tell your trainees that, when they map the outline of a roof, >> they should afterwards drag it to the ground floor of the building. The >> higher the building the worse the offset due to the sloped angle of the >> aerial photograph. Please also tell them about the function "make >> rectangular" which every editor has. (When using JOSM, don't forget to >> mention the plugin "buildings_tools" (which enables drawing and tagging >> a house with two clicks) and the extrude tool). >> >> Best Regards from Germany >> Thomas >> >> ¹ http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/926 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> > > > > -- > James Michael DuPont > Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://www.flossk.org > Saving Wikipedia(tm) articles from deletion > http://SpeedyDeletion.wikia.com >
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