Hi Pete
Yes, the contributors are prompt to respond to MSF and other humanitarian
organizations operational projects. And be sure that such feedback about these
projects is most appreciated by the HOT contributors.
Let me make some disgression suggesting more intensive collaboration.
We are a techy organization and the big contributors appreciate the capacity to
move forward and work more closely with the field teams, to explore workflows
to better interact. Feedback is a must to keep the incentive to participate.
Even in the context of urgent projects, if the teams take the time to give
minimal feedback, I am convince that this will assure a good progress of the
Task Manager jobs.
The article about Ebola refered by Russell this week, presented some criticism
about the Ebola basemap quality relying it to the Crowdsource mapping or
import of Settlement place names with duplicates. This shows misunderstanding
about how we can collectively, the OSM community and the international
organizations deployed in the field, build a coherent map.
Crowdsourcing the digitalization of aerial imagery or data imports, this is
only one step in building an exhaustive map that can support humanitarian
operations. To complete the map, the volunteers from abroad need more
interaction with the field team GIS specialists. After mostly a year
contributing for the Ebola activation and with all the GIS specialists in the
field working for Ebola, we still see how it is difficult to go further then
Crowdsource remote mapping and as a Global humanitarian community integrate the
field data collection in a more coherent information system, to share with
others.
Working on smaller projects like this one, this could be often an opportunity
to progress and find ways to better interact.
regard
Pierre
De : Pete Masters <pedrito1...@googlemail.com>
À : "hot@openstreetmap.org" <hot@openstreetmap.org>
Envoyé le : Vendredi 6 mars 2015 10h43
Objet : [HOT] Mayendit task
Hi all, I planned to write an email this afternoon to ask for your help with
the Mayendit task (http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/923). The MSF team need the
data fairly urgently.
However, when I just went to look, I saw it was already at 28%! This is
amazing....
So, instead I will just say, keep up the good work. The team needs the data by
mid next week, but I think that looks very likely to happen.
If anyone has time to do a bit of validation, that would also be super cool.
(I try not to post to this list too much about Missing Maps tasks as you are
all already involved in so many worthy projects. This is an exception because
of the task's urgent nature...)
Thanks again!
Pete
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Pete Masters
Missing Maps Project Coordinator
+44 7921 781 518
missingmaps.org
@pedrito1414
@theMissingMaps
facebook.com/MissingMapsProject
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