Dear friends, in supporting JOSM mapper with new skills (for more specialised tasks) I converged on the idea of "tailored practice projects", allowing JOSM mappers to learn and practice (more advanced) skills.
See e.g. and https://tasks.hotosm.org/project/3296 https://tasks.hotosm.org/project/3899 together with instructions at http://tiny.cc/mmjosm I am not sure whether this idea has legs yet, but perhaps some of you would like to feed back? Clearly the projects ultimately run out of tiles, but they could be cloned to other areas that need those skills for mapping? Also clearly, while they are very useful in other ways, they don't respond to current emergencies. However, through the practice projects, mappers learn skills that can then be used in emergencies. The instructions provided are tailored to the task, but would easily carry over to another similar ask. Feel free to try this out, and let me know what you think! Bjoern PS: We have another JOSM script for marking residential areas. So if somebody has a project where that needs doing, that could be another practice project. The idea could be to add the residential areas through a script, but only do this at the validation stage. Thus the validator also gets to map, rather than just checking. Let me know if you do residential areas somewhere, and we could discuss.
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