Interesting reading through the conversation stimulated by John Whelan's original challenge, which raises a lot of echo's in my mind of starting up on HOT mapping. Starting off on an immediate crisis task was an obvious choice, although opening up the first part completed tasks and seeing very poor mapping, which as a beginner I felt unqualified to amend, left me chasing around for a task area in which no action has taken place. At the time, there was another emerging crisis and I started in here, and immediately had comments back from Blake - and I was hooked !!
Once the crises had passed, it was difficult to decide what project to start on next, since there were so many part completed ones about, with no real indicating whether they were live or not, even when the Task Manager still indicated High Priority. Having been an early recipient of one of Polyglot's Screencasts, I can endorse their usefulness, perhaps made easier in this first instance in that only buildings were required and therefore the range of options to be used in JOSM was reasonably constrained. But in honesty, most of the HOT mapping requires only a limited knowledge of JOSM, and I would support a suite of training screencasts to cover these. Following this route would allow a build up of confidence in JOSM, from which a wider experimentation could be contemplated with less trepidation !! The other huge benefit of the current task supports comments made over the past few weeks - the task areas are not huge, and can be completed in a couple of hours-ish, and the rate of validation has been fantastic, so instant feed back, and hopefully instant improvements from myself. I will follow the continuing dialogue with interest Andrew -- Andrew Patterson The information contained in this e-mail and any files transmitted with it is confidential and intended for the addressee only.
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