Thanks , Listened to you,Mike Thompson! On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 9:13 PM, Mike Thompson <miketh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Two situations that a new mapper may face: > 1) Task area with nothing, or very little, mapped. > This *should* be pretty easy. For example, in the case of buildings: draw > building, square it, tag it as a building, don't draw two buildings over > lapping each other. However, despite verbal instruction, demonstrations, > and written instructions, many get it wrong. My conclusion is human > learning is more complex than many of us assume (hence the need for > professional educators in our society). We may need to adjust our training > (both online and in person) to be more effective. Just providing the > information is not enough. > > 2) Task area has already been partially mapped, either outside of the > tasking manager, as part of a previous project, or as part of the current > project where another mapper didn't finish. > Essentially we are asking the mapper in question to be a validator, > because we expect that when he or she marks the task as done, they are > saying that all of the mapping is done according to the instructions, not > just the mapping he or she did. This can be very difficult for a new > mapper, especially without the tools in JOSM. For example, if the > instructions call for buildings to be square, they have to pan the entire > task looking for buildings where is in JOSM, I put all buildings into the > to do list and step through them (I could also search for ways tagged as > buildings with less than a certain number of nodes and square them all at > once). > > Ideas: > * Have the tasking manager require a mapper to open (no way of knowing if > they actually read them) their messages before they can do checkout > another tasks. > * Have tasking manager forward messages to mapper's email account. > * Require that a mapper at least visits the "instructions" tab before > checking out a task. > * Enhance project instructions to cover "edge cases". For example, should > buildings under construction be mapped? Should existing features be > spatially adjusted to the preferred imagery source, or should the imagery > be adjusted to them? > * Enhance project instructions to have links to examples (some of the > Africa projects already do this). "Not sure what a building under > construction looks like? Click here for some examples." "Not sure how to > adjust imagery offset in iD? Click here for instructions." > * Mapathons should not be held without experienced mappers present who are > willing to spend the entire event going from person to person to check on > their work and answer any questions. We need many different people to make > this work, and if someone just wants to be an organizer that is great, but > they should ensure experienced mappers are in attendance. > * Some sort of online way to quickly give feedback as soon as a save is > made such that it is not necessary to wait until a task is marked as done. > > Mike >
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