Hi Russell, A new voice on the mailing list.
Who is the intended audience for this document? If it includes 'volunteers trying to understand how HOT works' may I/others also make suggestions to the document? (I ask because I may have missed a previous thread, and I'm not sure how open source HOT is.) David On 15 July 2015 at 01:12, john whelan <[email protected]> wrote: > My feeling is validation should be formally mentioned before phase three. > I agree the document is a great step forward over what we have but just as > in computer programming the earlier you catch the mistakes the cheaper it > is to fix so in HOT mapping. Catch someone's mistakes early and hopefully > they won't continue to make the same mistake again. Leave it to the end of > the project and you have twenty tiles to clean up whilst catch it early and > you only need clean up one. > > Tactful words are not my specialty and I'm sure that someone can phrase it > better. Perhaps it should be in the instructions to project managers, line > up a couple of people who are willing to validate and stick a note on the > project this project is validated as the tiles are completed. > > I merely raise the issue. > > Cheerio John > > On 14 July 2015 at 19:30, Russell Deffner <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi John, >> >> >> >> If there is some particular wording suggestion you have, go ahead and >> comment directly on the document. In general, this does increase the role >> of validation as we are going to build out a training specifically for that >> role. I was actually getting around to including you in the building of >> that training, so in general I think these concerns will be addressed >> during that process. >> >> >> >> Chat more soon, >> >> =Russ >> >> >> >> *From:* john whelan [mailto:[email protected]] >> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 14, 2015 4:33 AM >> *To:* Russell Deffner >> *Cc:* hot >> *Subject:* Re: [HOT] Final request for feedback - Activation Protocol >> >> >> >> The only thing I'd suggest is stronger empathise on the role of >> validation. Feedback by end users at a recent AID conference in Ottawa was >> the maps were great but please could we arrange for them to be validated as >> the quality was variable. >> >> I note we include the words about new mappers but for the maps to be more >> reliable they need to be validated and not just by another new mapper. >> >> I like the idea that there is some sort of review of older projects with >> the idea of either turning them into a missing map project or simply >> archiving them. >> >> Projects that ask for buildings typically don't get completed, could this >> be taken into account in the activation process? >> >> Thanks >> >> >> >> Cheerio John >> >> >> >> On 13 July 2015 at 21:40, Russell Deffner <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Hello HOT community, >> >> >> >> There has been a tremendous collaboration to create the draft Activation >> Protocol; a great thank you to everyone who has contributed so far. On >> behalf of Tyler, Mhairi and myself; we welcome you to make one more review >> of the content this week before we ‘take-it-offline’ for print-editing >> (with a huge advanced thank you to Katja for helping us with that). >> >> >> >> With that said, please be advised that all the figures/tables/etc. are my >> sketch-up and should not be considered final/good/etc – just a sketch of >> what the final product will contain. >> >> >> >> The draft document can be found here: >> https://drive.google.com/open?id=1qefHRE3_wUyG3lMSb7NlkSDtPuQeaQXsflkxt3E3xSA >> or via the HOT Drive. >> >> >> >> Thank you, >> >> =Russ >> >> >> >> Russell Deffner >> >> [email protected] >> >> Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) >> >> http://hotosm.org >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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