Just a comment on what is required, If its HOT then I assume there is normally some urgency and that implies a time frame. We don't have unlimited resources, they might be free but knowledgeable mappers are not unlimited.
How can we make the best use of what we have? I wonder if some sort of work flow might be better. Pass 1, do the major roads and towns / larger villages, Pass 2 rivers, pass 3 tracks, pass 4 forests etc. Perhaps rivers should come first? Certify the mappers, self certification would be fine but a small training course this is how to map a road, this is how to map a village, this is how to map a river, this is how to map a building (JOSM building tool?). At the moment we seem to have a number of different people going over the same ground mapping the same things which to me is a waste of resources and no real agreement as to when a tile is complete, ie no service level agreement. I've even seen a building mapped over a building. Cheerio John Cheerio John On 2 January 2015 at 09:14, Laura Green <lolly...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hoping this is the right forum for this question and comment: I'm trying > to contribute to "#591 South Sudan Crisis, Cholera outbreak in Juba, > mapping with WorldView-2 imagery". I'm not sure I understand the > instructions, especially regarding the imagery. > > Might someone be able to clarify the instructions shown on the HOT page > please? > > I *think* it means (for JOSM users, not sure if it applies to ID): > > 1) please map roads, streets, buildings, walls, water streams and canals. > 2) disregard the automatic imagery that downloads when you contribute, > download Bing imagery instead. > 3) Bing imagery is now aligned correctly (as of date xxx), so please > realign or redraw vector data to match the Bing imagery. > > ...but I may be misinterpreting the description/instructions. > > I’d like to comment generally about the hot task manager > descriptions/instructions: > > Unless indicated as "Expert only" at the very beginning of an activation > page, I'm assuming all activations are for the general public to contribute > to? The "whys and wherefores" and technical information I feel are often > getting in the way of plain and simple guidance as to what is required, so > people can just get on with it, and not have to hunt for the pertinent > information. Plainly worded bullet points would be ideal. Any "nice to > know" information could be provided below this. > > Laura Green > osm: LollyMay > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >
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