Well said. If all the buildings are present now in New York, the focus of the local community can shift to entering whihc POIs are where. Adding buildings is a tedious job. Adding POIs is too, but it becomes a lot easier to do correctly when the buildings are there, including all the addresses.
Polyglot 2014-07-16 2:46 GMT+02:00 Jason Remillard <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > > - Paid staff > > The question was raised on if paid staff would be used for this. The > wiki > > says no money is being exchanged for work - does this mean that all work > > will be done by volunteers? > > > > - Remote mappers > > Will many remote mappers be involved, particularly paid ones? > > I believe it is entirely possible to do a good import with paid remote > mappers. > > We care about making sure that everybody who is touching the import > knows what they are doing. For example, I suggest all of the following > items are requires knowledge before participating in an import. > > - What's a relation is? > - Difference between highway=trunk, and highway=service, > - How to tag schools, > - How to replace geometry in JOSM, and when should it be used. > - What are image offsets, and how to apply them in JOSM, > - What are change set comments. > - Have they gone and mapped their local neighborhood by hand > > If they are doing an address import, do they understand > - when to tag a building, when to put the address on a node, > - how to tag address interpolation, > - how to handle new addresses and existing POI's, > - what are all of the address tags > > community > > - What to do with OSM messages > - What is the DWG, and what does it mean when they write you a message. > > The problems with the paid NY mappers were training/process issues. We > all can think of examples of somebody new to OSM trying to help with > an import and making lots mistakes. Its an old problem really. > > I would like to suggest less focus on who is working for who and more > focus on insuring that everybody involved has the training needed. If > people are involved that are new to OSM, the organizer of the import > needs to think about and perhaps discuss the plan for onboarding > everybody involved. > > Jason > > _______________________________________________ > Imports mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports >
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