Re: [HOT] validation

2015-06-28 Thread Dale Kunce
John and Susan I love this idea. The Missing Maps projects are generally really good for new mappers. We could set up a couple of tasks outside a mapathon just for this purpose. Would you once a list of people you can contact in the task instructions. These folks will also be the ones responsible

Re: [HOT] validation

2015-06-28 Thread john whelan
The problem with email addresses are that when Nepal started up we had several thousand new mappers in the first few days, if even 5% contacted the email address the person gets swamped and burns out. Maperthons, 1093 and 1094 I did quite a bit of validation on these, much of the initial mapping w

Re: [HOT] validation

2015-06-28 Thread Michael Heißmeier
Hi all, john whelan schrieb am 28.06.2015 um 15:00: The problem with email addresses are that when Nepal started up we had several thousand new mappers in the first few days, if even 5% contacted the email address the person gets swamped and burns out. I agree that any direct interaction ou

Re: [HOT] validation

2015-06-28 Thread john whelan
>Another idea which comes to my mind: let contributors have a third choice for their task. Apart from "Unlock" and "Mark task as done" something which marks the task as done but calls for more-or-less immediate validation because the contributor wants feedback about the quality of his work. Such ti

Re: [HOT] validation

2015-06-28 Thread Dale Kunce
I like the done but needs help option. This would be really helpful both during mapathons and for big activations where we have lots of new mappers. On Sun, Jun 28, 2015, 2:05 PM john whelan wrote: > >Another idea which comes to my mind: let contributors have a third choice > for their task. Apa

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] Fwd: About " openstreetmap " Name Conflict

2015-06-28 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
The best course of action to scams like this is take no action. Replying just gets you on a list of suckers. ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot