Hello Suzan,
I am very new here and puzzled by some of the processes in
place. Not sure if I will even continue, there seems to be a fair
bit of turmoil not related to the earthquake. I received one e-mail
from someone who said this OSM initiative has only been going 10
years and was still a work in progress! 10 years, and only now
someone is starting to put together some training materials? What
has been going on? The instructional materials that do exist also
seem to be scattered among many sites and documents; I have given up
trying to keep track. I went through two introductory videos on the
simple editor which was fine and then fired up JOSM which looks quite
daunting, even for someone experienced with GIS.
I'm still not clear why an emergency response project would
need building footprints, especially when it is so labour intensive
to create and then correct them. There seem to be some odd
priorities, but then I certainly don't know the whole picture.
Thanks, Cheers . . . . . . . . Spring
At 07-05-2015 00:30 Thursday, Suzan Reed wrote:
Training My major problem with the current training, it's long,
boring, and slow. A Quick Start Guide would be perfect for someone
like me. A video with this information would be great. I could not
go through the training because it went too slow, so I missed some
information, but found the process for someone like me who works in
Photoshop pretty easy and intuitive, but I'm not a usual newbie. An
orientation video for the area being mapped. I don't think many
mappers know what buildings in remote areas of Nepal look like, or
that villages are spread out over a big area, or that paths just end
and do not connect in rural Nepal. A video with still and moving
images I believe would be a big help. People could then see
buildings are not square, built out of piles of rocks, and are often
two stories tall with animals below and people above. Roofs are tin,
or packed earth. If mappers could see this I think they would do a
better job mapping. The video could also go over other details of
the project. I'd be willing to help with this. Mentors I have
connected with someone who is my mentor and checks my work. Think it
would be great if every newbie could have a mentor, or a group of
mentors to submit work to. Correcting other's work We all want to do
a good job, but I don't think the training gives the most important
information up front, i.e. make buildings the right size and square.
I've just deleted and redrawn about 100 buildings that were not
square nor did they fit on the image footprint. The mappers probably
thought a rough polygon would let people know a building existed in
that spot, but that's not what's needed. Same with paths that didn't
conform to the image. How to do it right would be so helpful if
included in the training up front. I don't think most people have
the patience to go through slow training, or my DVD wouldn't have
come with a Quick Start Guide! I'm a Newbie, and I recommend newbies
be limited to drawing buildings and adding roads and paths. Experts
should draw Residential Areas in rural areas and note forests and
other features. I've corrected hundreds of buildings and paths. It's
a waste of time and energy for the original mapper and the person
correcting. We all want to do a good job or we wouldn't be spending
hours mapping. Hope this helps. Cheers! Suzan On May 6, 2015, at
11:10 PM, Laura Camellini wrote: Hi all, as I suggested some days
ago, I'd like to add these video training (while done) to a moodle
course, And maybe be able to synch the moodle course training with
the task manager permission to edit maps. Do you think this could
help you with your tasks? Regards, LauraC 2015-05-07 3:16 GMT+02:00
Mhairi O'Hara <mhairi.oh...@hotosm.org>: Dear Hotties, Please see
the e-mail from Pete Masters from the Missing Maps project: We are
thinking about putting together some video training resources for
HOT mapping for newbies. No concrete plans yet, just getting some
thoughts together. There's a shared doc here, where we're collecting
ideas for the individual modules. Please feel free to add your
thoughts and, even better, to encourage newbies to identify where
there are most needs for training materials...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Mo82sCLLnP30SsgRO1VIpGxezWcQhAQ_HxEpCEPh89o/edit?usp=sharing
Cheers, Pete -- Pete Masters Missing Maps Project Coordinator +44
7921 781 518 missingmaps.org @pedrito1414 @theMissingMaps
facebook.com/MissingMapsProject -- Mhairi O'Hara Technical Project
Manager Email: mhairi.oh...@hotosm.org Indonesian Mobile: +62 822
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