<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">I think if we get something like Nepal crop up again that this would be an excellent introduction to HOT mapping and would help on the data quality side.  However we have around a thousand open projects in HOT at the moment and making an intro like this for each one would take quite a bit of effort.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Is the HOT training group aware of these?<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks John<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 June 2015 at 15:53, pierre mirlesse <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pierre_mirlesse@yahoo.com" target="_blank">pierre_mirlesse@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:13px">John whelan mentioned in his note: "</span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:13px">If you put something in the task instructions then people have to read them</span></div><span class=""><div><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:13px">and there seems to be a tendency to just map first and read the </span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:13px">instructions afterwards"</span></div><div><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div></span><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:13px">inputs: maybe the descriptions and instructions format of the Tasking Manager a little too "dry" for new mappers. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:13px">maybe a short video conversation/intro 2-3 mn about Why the task was created, by Whom and how it will be used </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:13px">could insure more "stickyness/interest" of new mappers to the task and promoting reading it's description.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:13px">John if interested to test this out... let me know. Here are some of the intros I've done for other tasks:</span></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI--yT3RL5U" target="_blank">How To Map in Openstreetmap : Basic Training ID Editor HOT Task #1090</a></span></font><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </span> </div><div style="width:450px;font-family:'Georgia','Times','Times New Roman','serif';margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;background-color:#ffffff"><table style="width:450px;height:170px;display:block" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="8" style="height:1px;background-color:#e5e5e5;font-size:1px;border-collapse:collapse"><div style="min-height:1px;background-color:#e5e5e5;font-size:1px;line-height:0px"> </div></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="5" style="width:1px;background-color:#e5e5e5;font-size:1pt;border-collapse:collapse"><div style="width:1px;background-color:#e5e5e5;font-size:1pt"> </div></td><td rowspan="5" style="vertical-align:middle;width:168px;height:168px;background-color:#000000;border-collapse:collapse"><div style="width:168px" align="center"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI--yT3RL5U" style="text-decoration:none!important;color:#000000!important" target="_blank" class="playable"><img alt="image" src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VI--yT3RL5U/hqdefault.jpg" style="display:block;margin:auto" height="126" width="168"></a></div></td><td rowspan="5" style="width:1px;background-color:#e5e5e5;font-size:0pt;border-collapse:collapse"><div style="width:1px;background-color:#e5e5e5;font-size:1pt"> </div></td><td rowspan="5" style="width:14px;background-color:#ffffff;font-size:0pt;border-collapse:collapse"><div style="width:14px;background-color:#ffffff;font-size:14pt"> </div></td><td colspan="2" style="height:6px;background-color:#ffffff;font-size:0pt;border-collapse:collapse"><div style="min-height:6px;background-color:#ffffff;font-size:6pt"> </div></td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nd-color:#ffffff;min-height:135px;width:245px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;word-break:break-all"><span></span><span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXrxGwT287E" style="text-decoration:none!important;color:#000000!important;line-height:100%;font-size:18px;display:block" target="_blank"><span style="margin:0;font-weight:normal;margin-bottom:3px;font-size:18px;line-height:21px;max-height:43px;color:#000000;overflow:hidden!important;display:inline-block">How To Map in OSM : Advanced training with JOSM HO...</span></a></div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="height:4px;background-color:#ffffff;font-size:0pt;border-collapse:collapse"><div style="min-height:4px;background-color:#ffffff;font-size:4pt"></div></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:middle;font-family:'Arial','Helvetica Neue','Helvetica','sans-serif'"><div style="font-size:0pt"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXrxGwT287E" style="color:black;text-decoration:none!important" target="_blank"><span style="display:inline-block;line-height:11px;max-width:145px;min-width:85px;overflow:hidden;max-height:13px;word-break:break-all"><span style="vertical-align:middle;font-size:9px;line-height:11px;color:#999999">View on <span style="font-weight:bold">www.youtube.com</span></span></span></a><span title="480"></span><span title="270"></span><span title="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FXrxGwT287E?feature=oembed"></span></div></td><td style="vertical-align:middle;width:100px;font-family:'Arial','Helvetica Neue','Helvetica','sans-serif'"><div style="max-width:100px;min-width:80px;overflow:hidden;text-align:right;line-height:11px;max-height:13px;font-size:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:middle;font-size:9px;line-height:11px;color:#999999">Preview by Yahoo</span></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="height:9px;background-color:#ffffff;font-size:0pt;border-collapse:collapse"><div style="min-height:9px;background-color:#ffffff;font-size:9pt"></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="8" style="height:1px;background-color:#e5e5e5;font-size:1px;border-collapse:collapse"><div style="min-height:1px;background-color:#e5e5e5;font-size:1px;line-height:0px"> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div><font size="2">Pierre</font></div><div><br></div></font></span></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>