Dear all, We talked a lot for this issues, what I suggest for Albania is a Mapathon for over the weekend in Tirana.
Thanks, Besfort On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Luca Paolo Pescatore <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > -- *Besfort Guri* GIS Developer *IRuSP - Implemtation and Enforcement of* *Rural Planning Project* +386 49 87 75 75 Blog: http://www.bguri.net An EU funded project managed by EU Office in Kosovo Implemented by NIRAS in consortium with DLG and INSI Address: Str Shaban Polluzha, No 3, Prishtina, Kosovo
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