Steve,
Thanks for the feed back. Great to know that a course has been thought
of earlier. Via the Task manager seems a good way to get quick and
simple feedback , as you mentioned.
Cheers,
Graham
On 12/4/2016 2:49, Steve Bower wrote:
Graham,
Excellent questions on an important topic - I think HOT has improved
its mentoring & management of validation & validators, and needs to
continue that effort.
There is a validation course at the HOT Training Center [1], "required
training for, and will teach the essential knowledge required to,
perform the Validation Role during an Activation". I have not taken
the course, and don't know if/how it is "enforced" as a required course.
Regarding "coaching", questioned in your summary list of key points :
I think the point is that validators need to be good coaches, giving
feedback to the mappers being validated (as John clarified). Feedback
from validators has in the past been largely lacking, in my limited
experience - hence new mappers don't always learn from their mistakes.
The Tasking Manager could be enhanced to simplify and encourage
feedback from validators to appropriate mappers.
Mike Thompson : Regarding:
"1) If the instructions explicitly say not to map something (e.g.
tracks) but some were mapped and were done so correctly by the
generally accepted practices in OSM, do you leave them? I did."
I would give the feedback that it was not necessary to trace the
tracks, and that it would be preferable to stick to
the requested features in the future in order to complete the project
as quickly as possible. However, they were traced correctly, and thank
you for the contribution and your extra work. (As John said, in
general the work of others should not be deleted, only corrected as
needed.)
[1] http://courses.hotosm.org/course/index.php?categoryid=2
Cheers,
~~Steve
On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Mike Thompson <miketh...@gmail.com
<mailto:miketh...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 11:25 AM, john whelan
<jwhelan0...@gmail.com <mailto:jwhelan0...@gmail.com>> wrote:
If you read through the wiki it specifically mentions
highway=service.
>By default,
primary/secondary/tertiary/unclassified/residential and
service highway
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway>=* are
supposed to be paved.
It would be more clear and obvious if highway=service appeared in
the table with the other possible values, but I will accept this
as indicating that we should "highway=service" roads in Africa.
When I'm validating then I consider I'm validating the work
done by HOT mappers on this project on the tile. Any previous
work that was there before I consider governed by the general
rules of OSM ie don't touch it unless its very clearly wrong
and even then there is a long winded protocol that it is
recommended you follow. I certainly won't delete anything
because it wasn't there on the image. <Crtl>i can be helpful
and looking at the number of edits the mapper has made can
give you a clue as well.
Good advice
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