[HOT] Connecting it all up

[john whelan]

If you look at many parts of the map in Africa you can see squares of
activity.  Often HOT projects but there are many many places where a
tertiary or higher classified highway is fifty meters or less from
connecting to another highway.

I seem to recall in Ghana they had a project to just map the major
highways.  This is pure infrastructure, it isn't exciting like mapping
buildings but I suspect it would make the map a lot more usable if we could
connect up a few more highways and I'm not even sure how you could detect
them.

Thoughts?

Thanks John
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Re: [HOT] Spam messages

[Scott Davies]

Further to this, for those that aren't aware, there is this 'commit' on
github, which at least changes the wording of the message even though it
doesn't deal with the other issues raised:
https://github.com/hotosm/tasking-manager/commit/86f3c14f3c4593a9ac85c2ea3b50f6f807681cf2

There is also this 'issue':
https://github.com/hotosm/tasking-manager/issues/635



On 2 November 2017 at 16:35,  wrote:

> I have to say that I too am very unhappy about these “automatic “ messages
> being sent out in my name. I have got 6 of them in my messages at this very
> moment from other validators. They bear no resemblance to the kind of
> message I would send and they are very “patronising”, believing that all
> mappers would be impressed with receiving something as meaningless as
> “awesome”. Especially if they only mapped two or three buildings, or just
> opened the tile to have a look and did not map anything.
>
>
>
> Please stop automated messages as they will be more damaging than good.
> The first few messages may well be received with interest but after about
> four or five meaningless automated messages they are just nuisance value.
> The mappers will benefit more from constructive messaging which can only be
> done on an individual level. They will not be fooled with repetitive
> automated platitudes. It will also not be good for them to receive an
> automated “awesome” and then get a comment saying they have not got it
> quite right and telling them how to square their buildings or tag the
> features correctly.
>
>
>
> If they do opt out of receiving, will they also not receive notification
> when they are tagged in a comment? This would be counter productive if you
> are trying to reach out to someone who needs some guidance to correct
> errors in their work, or a more encouraging comment because their work is
> of such a good standard that I want them to know that and encourage them to
> do more.
>
>
>
> Sent from Mail  for
> Windows 10
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Re: [HOT] Spam messages

[ralph.aytoun]

I have to say that I too am very unhappy about these “automatic “ messages 
being sent out in my name. I have got 6 of them in my messages at this very 
moment from other validators. They bear no resemblance to the kind of message I 
would send and they are very “patronising”, believing that all mappers would be 
impressed with receiving something as meaningless as “awesome”. Especially if 
they only mapped two or three buildings, or just opened the tile to have a look 
and did not map anything.

Please stop automated messages as they will be more damaging than good. The 
first few messages may well be received with interest but after about four or 
five meaningless automated messages they are just nuisance value. The mappers 
will benefit more from constructive messaging which can only be done on an 
individual level. They will not be fooled with repetitive automated platitudes. 
It will also not be good for them to receive an automated “awesome” and then 
get a comment saying they have not got it quite right and telling them how to 
square their buildings or tag the features correctly.

If they do opt out of receiving, will they also not receive notification when 
they are tagged in a comment? This would be counter productive if you are 
trying to reach out to someone who needs some guidance to correct errors in 
their work, or a more encouraging comment because their work is of such a good 
standard that I want them to know that and encourage them to do more.

Sent from Mail for Windows 10

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