Dear friends, Not in direct response to John, but on a tangent.
Do people who organise mapathons have a sense of how many people come again vs. those who only come once? Do you have specific strategies to encourage people to come back? Do you have a plan for progression moving people onto JOSM, or as John suggests starting some/all on JOSM? Then moving people to validation? Would be interested to hear! Bjoern On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 at 00:20, john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not a great person for maperthons, the last one I attended could have > gone a little smoother, there was a time delay before mapping. They were > mapping buildings and highways and although they were mapping for some time > no tiles were completed. > > Recently there was another one locally which I drifted down to and I did > the patter. I took two laptops with JOSM preinstalled and set them up. > > As new mappers came in I just asked them to sit down at the laptops and > start mapping with the building tool. Then we set up their laptops with > JOSM and they continued on their own machines installing JOSM, I think one > needed to download JAVA and I had JOSM an a DVD. They then continued > mapping. We had them mapping their first building within minutes. The big > delay was setting up an OSM account and logging into the task manager. > > 12-15 people registered we had six mappers eventually, four were new to > JOSM. They mapped buildings quite quickly and I guarantee all were square, > all were correctly tagged and none were more than six inches out of place. > Most were spot on in Bing. Tiles were completed and not just ones without > buildings in them we deliberately pointed them to tiles that had a fair > number of buildings in them. > > As they mapped they became more adventurous in drawing two squares on an L > shaped building and joining them together. We knew that one section was a > caravan park so the mapper explored the tags and found > building=static_caravan and was delighted to find they could select all the > static_caravans and retag them all at once. > > One new mapper was a teacher so since we had a very experienced iD mapper > there after she had been mapping in JOSM for a period of time I got him to > show her how to map in iD. Her comment was not so complex to set up in > that you didn't need to start JOSM first but per building it was more mouse > clicks involved and more to remember. > > I don't know if the group of mappers we had was small enough we could give > them a bit more one on one or they were just exceptionally good new > mappers. They all had Windows machines to work on. > > I do know that Jo has had some similar results going directly to JOSM for > new mappers. > > It does look as if going JOSM and the building_tool plugin is a viable > route for new mappers mapping buildings in maperthons. Both the quantity > per mapper and the data quality of the mapped buildings was high. > > Cheerio John > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >
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