If you notice that the project you're planning to use has an active validator please if possible give them some warning before your maperthon. Finding a dozen tiles suddenly mapped by new mappers can be wonderful but finding tiles marked done by a mapper who has not actually added anything when there are a dozen settlements unmapped on the first, then settlements but no highways at all on the second one examined does tend to dump on the validator. If there is a bit of prior warning sometimes additional resources can be found to validate.
Secondly for new mappers please split the tiles as much as possible. That gives the validator a chance to correct the mappers before they repeat the errors too many times. So far on this particular project groups of buildings have been tagged building=residential rather than landuse=residential, then we have landuse=residential, great but with the additional tag of name=houses so be nice and verify your training guides are simple and clear to understand. Yes I know I'm supposed to be polite and say everything is wonderful, this is the very polite version the first five versions have been heavily censored. Many Thanks John
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