Re: [HOT] NB: Organised Editing Guidelines | Re: Final Request: Volunteers Needed for Global Mapathons!

2019-03-28 Thread Vao Matua
Rory, You are absolutely right, I'm not suggesting not using those guidelines, we need them. The Organized Editing Guidelines are fine and I believe most of the people in the OSM community want to follow the guidelines or at least follow in spirit. I've worked very hard to create good clear

Re: [HOT] NB: Organised Editing Guidelines | Re: Final Request: Volunteers Needed for Global Mapathons!

2019-03-28 Thread Mikel Maron
The guidelines are helpful high level guidance but the actual challenge is in implementation. Building a proper data operation, whether in OSM or not, is not just about talking to people and provide feedback. It definitely is that, but needs to be in a system. But working across all aspects of

Re: [HOT] NB: Organised Editing Guidelines | Re: Final Request: Volunteers Needed for Global Mapathons!

2019-03-28 Thread Rory McCann
On 28.03.19 02:57, Vao Matua wrote: 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 not well led, or at least not led by individuals that have a good level of

Re: [HOT] NB: Organised Editing Guidelines | Re: Final Request: Volunteers Needed for Global Mapathons!

2019-03-28 Thread Mikel Maron
Actually things are moving on iD, with focus on validation and expanded tools. The blocker was never people asking for a building tool. Improved validation in iD will help a lot. Being able to specify in TM projects that iD should load for beginners treating any problems as errors not warnings

Re: [HOT] NB: Organised Editing Guidelines | Re: Final Request: Volunteers Needed for Global Mapathons!

2019-03-28 Thread Pierre BĂ©land via HOT
Providing tools sophisticated or not to Newbies is not the only problem with quality. See my response about quality for the ticket https://github.com/hotosm/tasking-manager/issues/1373 With the advent of the MissingMaps project in 2014, the organizations that sponsor that project did not only

[HOT] DEADLINE for SOTM Scholarship Submission 3/30

2019-03-28 Thread Rachel VanNice
Hi all, Only 2 days left to get in your applications for scholarships for the Global State of the Map conference in Heidelberg Sept. 21-23, 2019! Within this application, you can indicate your interest in supplemental support to attend the HOT Summit. More details and application here-

Re: [HOT] NB: Organised Editing Guidelines | Re: Final Request: Volunteers Needed for Global Mapathons!

2019-03-28 Thread Blake Girardot
I gave it everything I could to get an iD editor buildings tool completed and finally gave up after a few years. This might be a good use of HOT's tech money or another partner who has experience developing for iD. How much effort and problems would be alleviated with an iD building tool?

Re: [HOT] NB: Organised Editing Guidelines | Re: Final Request: Volunteers Needed for Global Mapathons!

2019-03-28 Thread Mikel Maron
Felix I agree with that approach. If it needs to be in the wiki, then automated ways to create that archive makes sense. Rebecca, I think those activities are critical. My perspective is that someone in HOT needs to be primarily responsible for looking after data, quality and adherence and

Re: [HOT] Welcome Alex!

2019-03-28 Thread Pete Masters via HOT
Hi Alex, great to have you on board! Pete On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 1:32 AM Rebecca Firth wrote: > 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 >

Re: [HOT] NB: Organised Editing Guidelines | Re: Final Request: Volunteers Needed for Global Mapathons!

2019-03-28 Thread Felix Delattre
Hola, Yes, I think it was one of the concerns of the creators of the revised guidelines to assure that the scattered information on project's websites like Missing Maps and companies' blogs finds a way back to OpenStreetMap's infrastructure. The Tasking Manager is probably the software that is

Re: [HOT] NB: Organised Editing Guidelines | Re: Final Request: Volunteers Needed for Global Mapathons!

2019-03-28 Thread john whelan
To draw a rectangular building in line with another takes two clicks in JOSM using the buildings_tool plugin. Correctly labelled and square. To correct a building drawn in iD that is untagged and the wrong shape takes considerably more effort and time when validating. If you catch the mapper

Re: [HOT] NB: Organised Editing Guidelines | Re: Final Request: Volunteers Needed for Global Mapathons!

2019-03-28 Thread Rebecca Firth
Hiya, Just to follow up on this, the mapathons will be supporting Missing Maps projects. Validation activities to support the mapathons are already planned for the following week, as well as other activities such as training and this effort to find local experienced mappers who are interested in