Mikel et al,
I agree that we need to change the way we do mapathons, the credibility of
HOT and OSM is at risk.
I have observed some characteristics about the OSM mapping through HOT
tasks being done by mapathons, primarily ones done by corporate sponsors.
It appears that often these efforts are
Hi,
Very pleased to introduce Alex Glynn (
https://www.hotosm.org/people/alex-glynn/) who joined HOT last week,
managing our Communications activities globally! Excited to have Alex on
board to help bring HOT work alive through more and better comms - please
give her a warm welcome, and let her
Important to note the guidelines are suggestions not enforced requirements of
the OSMF. More on that in the blog post
https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2019/02/09/organised-editing-guidelines/
My opinion is master list of mapathons is a very good idea. I don’t think the
wiki is best system suited
Shoud I insist, we also need a new trend where such projects take
responsability to produce quality data. Badly, too often, this is not what we
observe. For the Ebola response in North Kivu, the coordinators, we had to
restart the mapping of Butembo in december since the data produced by
The OSM community & Foundation has recently adopted the Organised
Editing Guidelines, to guide events like this. The community wants to
help you make this a successful mapathon.
In emails like this, and in accordance with the OEG, you should link to
the wiki page(s) describing your mapathon.
