Hi Tracey, as promised I started some documentation on what errors I'm seeing quite often. I will be updating it later during my lunch hour with more examples: https://github.com/TraceyLauriault/COMS2200A/issues/19
On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 11:08 PM, Steve Singer <st...@ssinger.info> wrote: > On Tue, 10 Oct 2017, Tracey P. Lauriault wrote: > > > > Greetings OSM mappers; >> > > > For the benefit of background to others on the list > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/1560 > > Is an example of the block message that was sent to a bunch of users. > > (I wasn't involved in asking for or implementing the blocks or have > anything to do with the assignment). > > I haven't looked at the edits in any details but I will make a few general > comments > > 1. If one user comes into OSM and makes a few changes with issues because > of misunderstandings or inexperience fixing those changes isn't a big deal. > Most of the time someone will just fix them without saying anything. > However if 30 or 300 users make lots of changes in a short amount of time > with the same types of errors the volume present challenges. Large scale > edits by a bunch who are doing it as part of a course, or who are employed > by a company to make the changes, or who are doing so as part of a > coordinated humanitarian effort have the potential to cause problems if > they aren't coordinated carefully. > > > 2. A big part of working in any open-source project particularly with OSM > is that you need to communicate with the other contributors. Communication > is a two way street, some people are better at it then others and it > doesn't come naturally to everyone. I would hope that a course that > covered the contributing to open source projects (including open data > contributions) covered interacting with the community. If the course only > wanted to give students experience with the tools then editing against a > test or development instance of OSM would be better. > > The advise I would give to people new to the open source communities(and > at times remind veterans) is believe that most people who are contributing > are coming from a place of good intentions and to give them the benefit of > the doubt and try to understand where they are coming from. > > When contributing to an open sourced project you need to take > responsibility (as an individual) for your contributions but that doesn't > mean they need to be, or will be perfect. No edits are perfect but people > need to be willing to listen to and learn from feedback from other members > of the community. > > Steve > > > > > > > >> I understand that students for COMS2200 have been blocked from posting to >> OSM. >> >> There was also an unfortunate email sent to Carleton University by one of >> your members that is circulating >> through the administration from (james2...@gmail.com). >> >> The data are being contributed as part of an assignment described here - >> https://github.com/TraceyLauriault/COMS2200A >> >> I understand that the students are making some small and some large >> mistakes that may not meet your OSM >> data quality standards. The students are restricted to only be mapping >> the Carleton University Campus. >> >> I wonder if it might be possible to unlock the restriction to let them >> finish the assignment. They should >> be done by next week. There are 150 students. Once the assignment is >> complete I would gladly work with you >> to salvage the data, delete some data, repair some data or wipe all of >> the data. >> >> We apologize for this inconvenience and hope that you can be empathetic >> and allow for the assignment to be >> completed so that the students can be assessed. >> >> Also, perhaps there are a number of common errors and if you identify >> them we may be able to fix them. >> >> Sincerely >> Tracey >> >> -- >> Tracey P. Lauriault >> >> Assistant Professor Critical Media Studies and Big Data >> Communication Studies >> School of Journalism and Communication >> Suite 4110, River Building >> Carleton University >> 1125 Colonel By Drive >> Ottawa (ON) K1S 5B6 >> 1-613-520-2600 x7443 >> tracey.lauria...@carleton.ca >> @TraceyLauriault >> Skype: Tracey.P.Lauriault >> https://carleton.ca/sjc/people-archives/lauriault-tracey/ >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > > -- 外に遊びに行こう!
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