P.S. Martin, The Activation WG does not handle 'edit conflicts' or really any conflicts as we have plenty of those internally for coordinating HOT stuff. You also started with 'Dear OSM community' - just to clarify - this list is the 'HOT community'; to address the larger/general OSM community you would want to email [email protected] - and if you do need 'intervention' with another mapper, that's the OSMF Data WG (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Data_working_group)
Happy Mapping! (let me know if you need help 'resetting'/invalidating all tiles in 1649) =Russ Russell Deffner [email protected] Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) http://hotosm.org -----Original Message----- From: Russell Deffner [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 8:04 AM To: 'Martin Noblecourt'; '[email protected]' Subject: RE: [HOT] Issue with Harare project - 1649 Hi, Just a quick note - you can now 'invalidate all tiles' from the misc tab as a Project Manager; so no need to re-create. Also this user http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/rab - although they have a long OSM history, I wouldn't call them 'expert' as they still don't use changeset comments correctly after 8 years :) =Russ -----Original Message----- From: Martin Noblecourt [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 7:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [HOT] Issue with Harare project - 1649 Dear OSM community, I'd like to get your feedback about what happened on the following project: http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1649 This project have been marked as completely done by one single mapper without tracing, under the argument new mappers would damage existing data. The area is indeed already well mapped but also a lot of data is still missing (including rivers, roads and buildings) and it is pretty easy to trace so I doubt the project will damage the area (unless contribution to OSM is now reserved to "experts"). Another argument we received was that some of our previous Missing maps projects (such as 1465/1466) were a "complete quality disaster"... Although still unfinished and requiring an important work of validation (like all TM projects...), we strongly disagree that these projects were a disaster: they allowed mapping large areas that weren't mapped previously at all - which is in fact the goal of Missing Maps... The road network in particular still requires work of standardization/clean up, but this is quite common on TM activities too (getting mappers, whether they are new ones or experienced but not used to the African context, to properly tag roads, is a long-term challenge). Starting from scratch mapping of an area is as everyone know a work that often requires several steps. We intend to recreate the same project on the TM as it will be a waste of time to invalidate all the tiles again, please let us know if you don't think it is the appropriate way. Feedback are of course most welcome on the tasks created by Missing maps, we have in fact already had very interesting conversation with great validators and will be happy to hear from more people as long as it is respectful of everyone :-) (I someone thinks this message should to be forwarded to the Activation working group too, please do so since I'm not on it) Thanks for your feedback, Martin & Violaine for the CartONG team _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
