Perhaps creation of additional JOSM presets/validation tests and fixes? Cheers,
Adam On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Richard Weait <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Ian Dees <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> At the Google Summer of Code mentors summit this past weekend Google asked >> us (the organizations that participated in Summer of Code) to also >> participate in the Google Code-In project. The Code-In project is similar to >> the Summer of Code but for 13-18 year olds. The tasks are meant to be much >> smaller: the students are supposed to sign up for one task at a time, they >> get $100 for every 3 tasks they complete (up to $500). >> I talked a bit with Carol (the Google woman running the project) who liked >> me suggestion for putting up a bunch of mapping-related projects. For >> example, a project could be "map 100 restaurants in your area" or "map all >> stores in mall X". > > I'm not in favour of this idea. Mapping for pay will encourage gaming > the system for money and ripping data from other sources. It will > also create a group of mappers who will stop when the money runs out > and potentially resentment among the mappers who have mapped thousands > of restaurants for the love of mapping or the love of their town. > > If there are bite-sized code contributions, let's have a look at that. > GSoC already has retention issues in the larger projects. Not every > GSoC student continues with their project after the summer period. I > see this as a larger problem in a project with a lower initial barrier > to entry. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
