It's a fair point, Ralph. I will ask on the Missing Maps platforms that people not contribute if this is their first time mapping.
It might be good to put a note on the description and instructions on the tasks: EXPERIENCED MAPPERS ONLY Happy to do this if you guys think it's a good way to go... Pete On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 4:25 PM, AYTOUN RALPH <ralph.ayt...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > If I don't scream I will end up tearing my hair out. > We need to change what we are doing and who we are letting in to do it. > These Activations in response to a disaster means that people's lives are > at stake here. I am finding totally inexperienced mappers (some with no > completed tiles and others with only one or two completed tiles) messing > around with validating tiles or unlocking already validated tiles and > working on them. I have a screen shot of Nepal #944 showing 5 validated > tiles are actively locked. When I checked on the people that were doing > this they were complete beginners. > I have had one of the tiles I had completed opened by one of these > beginners and started adding short little sections of disconnected roads > (The instructions specifically ask us not to add these) then validating > this tile, then invalidating it again. > While I am all in favour of getting new mappers up and going this should > only be done on the Missing Maps project and not on HOT Activations. It is > extremely important that we get it right as quickly as possible for those > people out in the field with injured and dead all around them and lives at > stake for us to be rechecking already validated tiles because we can no > longer trust them to be correct or near to correct. > We have already had complaints about poor quality work in the past and > this type of activity is not going to get us any better credibility. We > really need to rethink the "open to all" policy for HOT Activations. > I am now looking at #944 which shows 63% Validated right now and there is > two more Validated tiles that are actively locked. > I no longer trust the Green marked tiles as being checked and cleared. I > know that the majority of what we are producing will be of some assistance > in the hills of Nepal but can also imagine the frustration of those people > with some of the nonsense I have managed to clean up while validating. > OK. Rant over. I will be sending out messages to all the new mappers I > have identified asking them to only work on the white tiles and not to open > any of the orange or green ones until they have a lot more experience. > Sorry to have interrupted you in the middle of this crisis but felt that > this needed to be said. > Ralph (RAytoun) > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > -- *Pete Masters* Missing Maps Project Coordinator +44 7921 781 518 missingmaps.org <http://www.missingmaps.org/> *@pedrito1414* <https://twitter.com/TheMissingMaps> *@theMissingMaps* <https://twitter.com/TheMissingMaps> *facebook.com/MissingMapsProject* <https://www.facebook.com/MissingMapsProject>
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