On 19/11/2015 5:31 AM, Andy Townsend wrote:
On 19/11/2015 10:16, Ben Abelshausen wrote:
You can go the tasking manager and see exactly what the goal of the
mapping activity was, who is the admin that created the task and who
validates, what mappers contributed and so on.
Can you please explain where any of that is documented within
OpenStreetMap? As an example, I recently came across this:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/381043577
It's a building that is a closed way, but only just. How can I offer to
help that mapper do what they are trying to do better? All the
changeset comment says is "#MissingMaps #hotosm-project-1254 Lubumbashi,
Congo (DRC) #100mapathons #OSMGeoWeek " - to me the only useful
information in there is "Lubumbashi, Congo (DRC)", which I already know
since that is exactly where this edit is.
More importantly, how do I contact the person who told this new mapper
that "#MissingMaps #hotosm-project-1254 Lubumbashi, Congo (DRC)
#100mapathons #OSMGeoWeek" was a suitable changeset comment, to explain
to them what we use changeset comments for and what makes a good one? If
I can talk to them, I can probably help them help other new users too,
and not just with stuff about changeset comments - as an OSM mapper
think of all the "how to interpret imagery" latent knowledge that you
have simply by being able to compare a place you visited with the
imagery of that place.
Cheers,
Andy
...
Blake Girardot has written a template for HOT coordinators to use when
putting together the instructions for their project. Anyhing this
community agrees on regarding changeset comments should go into that
template document. I will note the issue at next Monday's HOT Training
Working Group meeting.
BTW the HOT Training WGF has been tasked with updating LerarnOSM, for
the general OSM community as well as HOT. The work is going a bit slowly
-- a matter of personal circumstances of the people involved, but it is
proceeding.
Tom Taylor
Chair, HOT Training WG
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