Hi Shelby,
there is a photo collection that helps identifying objects on the ground
and getting familiar to the Nepalese terrain, part of it is also
geotagged https://www.flickr.com/photos/katja-ulbert/collections
I know it doesn´t answer all your questions, but maybe it can give you
some hints.
Katja
Am 29/05/15 um 10:05 schrieb Shelby Canterford:
Am 29/05/15 um 10:05 schrieb Shelby Canterford:
Hello all. I have just signed up and this conversation seemed a good
time to jump in. I went through all the learning materials and had a
go at a tile. Of course having a go led to more questions. One of my
main concerns is just how I make the judgement of "this stream is too
small to map", and how much I should try and guess about roads/paths
surface etc. It would be really helpful for me if there was a field
guide about what the features I am looking at might be considered
roads or paths etc. I am trolling through the list archives to see if
some of my questions are already answered, but that's tedious! I would
actually like a test/mentoring system, then at least I would know if
I'm rubbish or not! I work in EM, and do my own basic GIS stuff, I
consider myself educated generally. But understanding classifications
of unfamiliar infrastructure is beyond my ken.
Thanks,
Shelby
On 29/05/2015 5:37 PM, Suzan Reed wrote:
When I came on board, I wondered why there weren't learning materials
I had to study, and then a test to be sure I was ready to map. (There
are people who put that kind of material together, and I know someone
who does just that.)
I also wondered why I was able to contribute to any task instead to
being routed to tasks meant especially for newcomers, with a
mentoring team watching over my work, giving me suggestions for
improvements.
Required reading and a mapping test? Routing newbies to tasks where
they are reviewed by mentors? I would have liked that.
Suzan
On May 28, 2015, at 10:07 PM, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 12:57 +0000, Rekth K wrote:
Hi all,
Thank you for all your welcoming messages!
I'd like to ask a question on what type(s) of user(s) to take into
consideration when testing for usability and suggesting
improvements. In
other words, for what level of experience am I supposed to optimise the
Tasking Manager? Should it be for first time visitors, those who
land on
the hotosm page and do not know what HOT is? Or should the usability
testing lean towards fully experienced users and their needs?
At the risk of sounding slightly elitist, I really think we should
mostly assume at least minimally experienced users who have at least
done some armchair mapping in their country and/or local area mapping
partially aided by aerials. I say this for two practical reasons:
1. A humanitarian mapping project is not the time and place to learn how
to properly use iD or JOSM.
2. The quality of work tends to correlate positively with level of
mapping experience.
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