For the OSM Geoweek in november, Invitations are made for groups, universities, etc. to create their own Mapathon. I suggest to transform this to an «Awesome OSM Geoweek» with focus on the quality of edits, quality of leadership, of coaching of new contributors. Otherwise, this will simply be a «Pulse of new contributors», editing for a few hours and leaving problems to others afterward and publication of «Big numbers of Contributors» that represent minimal impact on number of Contributions but significative Quality problems.
The same with this task. The organizers should tell us what they do to correct the situation. Pierre Frederik Ramm wrote: Maybe it is possible to do better QA, improve editing software, or easily fix the broken data, as suggested in various posts in this thread, but I'd like to find the root cause of this and work on that. Why and how did one person or a group of people who apparently lacked the capabilities to make this activity a success, start it in the first place? What warnings, what training material, what message of caution could have led them to seek advice from people with the relevant experience - or what over-optimistic "everyone can do it, no training required" message enticed them to carry on recklessly? Bringing dozens of new people to OSM only to delete (or significantly overhaul) 99% of their contribution later helps nobody; it causes unnecessary work for experienced mappers (and the DWG), tarnishes the reputation of HOT and OSM, and discourages these people (who would have made a valuable contribution given proper training) from contributing further. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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