[HOT] Tasking manager issue

2020-04-24 Thread Andrew Buck
Could someone who works on the tasking manager admin (coder or DB admin) hop on mumble for a few minutes and talk with me there. I have noticed something weird and would like to report it but it is not appropriate to mention it in a public channel like this. -AndrewBuck

Re: [HOT] Validators [was: COVID-19 For The Long Haul]

2020-04-24 Thread John Whelan
Difficult, how many mappers would a validator oversee at the same time.  The edits are done on a local PC and the bandwidth requirements between the mapper and validator would be higher than the existing method and bandwidth is often at a premium. Having said that the idea has merit for a

Re: [HOT] Validators [was: COVID-19 For The Long Haul]

2020-04-24 Thread Lists
I wonder if it would be possible to "validate" in real time. Some method that a validator could watch as the mapper did their thing, and make suggestions as they went? Then it becomes both training and validation simultaneously. Obviously it would have to be on a consent basis from the

Re: [HOT] HOT Tech announcement | Apr 24

2020-04-24 Thread Felix Delattre
Please excuse the wrong name for the day in the downtime happening this weekend: Tasking Manager (tasks.hotosm.org) - Increase of database resources *Sunday* (April 26 01:00 UTC - up to 2 hours) https://status.hotosm.org/maintenances/x6MFkB2LfftY All the best, Felix On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at

Re: [HOT] Validators [was: COVID-19 For The Long Haul]

2020-04-24 Thread john whelan
What I found when validating HOT tasks was that if I provided feedback that wasn't too negative on the task "ie the african highway wiki suggests that this type of highway should be mapped thus: with a link and reference to the wiki rather than you done it wrong" then the mapper would go on to do

[HOT] HOT Tech announcement | Apr 24

2020-04-24 Thread Felix Delattre
Hi humanitarian OpenStreetMappers, This is our Tech Announcement from the HOT Tech Team. We want you to be up-to-date with our activities, upgrades and related downtimes of our tools. We see a significant increase of the use of the Tasking Manager in the last weeks and we have to tweak our

Re: [HOT] Validators [was: COVID-19 For The Long Haul]

2020-04-24 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
On 4/24/20 12:26 PM, Russell Deffner wrote: Especially crucial are our Validators! With so many projects in so many locations, it will be a monumental task to keep up on validation. If you have the role, please leave the mapping to the newer contributors and help us keep our quality up and

[HOT] COVID-19 For The Long Haul

2020-04-24 Thread Russell Deffner
Dear HOT Community, I'll make this brief. We have 72 projects for coronavirus response on the Tasking Manager, dozens more in draft and more that we are working with partners to determine mapping needs. Whenever you have the time and energy this weekend, and potentially any day for months to