<div dir="ltr">Hi Nick and Volunteers,<div><br></div><div>On Saturday morning, from 900 to 1300 UTC, we'll be having another small mapathon/mapping party in Kinshasa in order to edit Ebola affected area in DRC, using some new imagery. Nearly all of the participants will be beginners, so I am planning to create another task with small squares and I think this could be a good place for testing this type of training task. Potential validators will be welcome to send feedback during the event. As it usually gathers between 10 and 20 participants, a few validators would be enough in theory.</div><div>Let me know if anyone would like to support this event,</div><div><br></div><div>Moreover, do you think exchanging messages within TM and OSM website will be enough? or should we try to set up an additional skype group or anything else for the event? IRC? (local participants have never used it as far as I know, same with Mumble).</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Claire</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial;font-size:small"><font color="#999999">Claire Halleux</font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial;font-size:small"><div><font color="#999999">Volunteer and Member of the Board</font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">+243 99 256 9980 (Kinshasa, DRC)</span><font color="#999999"><br></font></div><div><font color="#999999">Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team</font></div><div><font color="#999999"><br></font></div></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial;font-size:small"><a href="http://www.hotosm.org/" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.hotosm.org/</a></div><div><font color="#888888"><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2014_DRC_Ebola_Response" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2014_DRC_Ebola_Response</a></font><br></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 12:39 AM, Nick Allen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick.allen.54@gmail.com" target="_blank">nick.allen.54@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Ralph,<br>
<br>
Thanks for the offer of help - you're likely to see a request for
help approaching the 30th September when we have another Missing
Maps Project Mapathon in London. <br>
<br>
I'm really hoping that Blake can make progress on a guide to
satellite imagery - it's been on my todo list for some time, but
I'm conscious I've started many things and it would be good if I
actually finished a few of them. Although I agree that starting
new mappers with crisp images would be good, I think it would be
good to include a few fuzzy ones in the guide to show what you
have to deal with sometimes - educated guessing?<br>
<br>
At the moment I'm not intending to contact mappers who have not
marked as complete the squares they have opened. There can be
genuine reasons - it's happened to me several times. It can also
be a question of confidence & I don't want to frighten anyone
away. If we can get a trial area, and the trial works, then this
may largely solve the problem. I think also that the general
discussion will have raised awareness & that can make a
difference as well.<br>
<br>
Thanks again<br>
<br>
Nick<br>
(Tallguy)<br>
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On 09/09/14 17:53, AYTOUN RALPH wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi Nick,
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<div>I have been mapping the Africa HOT projects and am familiar
with the 'on the ground' knowledge of some parts of Africa.</div>
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<div>I like your idea for assisting the new mappers and agree
that some of the image material is pretty difficult to map due
to various reasons...cloud cover, fuzzy images or overcrowded
towns and slum areas to mention some.</div>
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<div>Choosing easier areas with sharp images would help the new
mappers to get the feel of the work and build up confidence,
and having feedback for their work early on would help them to
know if they are doing the right thing or not.</div>
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<div>To this end I am willing to give you a hand in helping new
mappers to read the imagery, create more complex building
shapes and the use of basic tags. Please let me know if there
is anything I can do to help.</div>
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<div>I have come across the increasing problem of mappers not
happy about marking squares as done, I have gone to numerous
squares and apart from a few tweaks there is nothing left to
do, but a number of mappers have opened that square, looked
around and then unlocked it again. I feel guilty marking those
squares as done when I have hardly done any work on them.
Should we contact the person that has done the most work and
tell them they have done well and could they please go back in
and mark it as done so they get the credit for closing it?</div>
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<div>Regards</div>
<div>Ralph</div>
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