<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hello everyone,<div><br></div><div>In relation to this, I would like to share these 2 documents that the <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Working_groups/Data_Quality_Control_and_Assurance">HOT Quality Control And Assurance Working G</a>roup (QC/A WG) has been working on for the past few months and is now shareable:</div><div><br></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Working_groups/Data_Quality_Control_and_Assurance/Problem_User_Escalation"><b>Problem User Escalation</b></a> which defines the steps in escalating data quality problems encountered with users (mappers/validators). Guidance on escalating users include contacting the mapper, project organization and/or project managers, QC/A WG, and so on..<br></li><li><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Working_groups/Data_Quality_Control_and_Assurance/Tasking_Manager_Project_Gardening"><b>Tasking Manager Project Gardening</b></a> which identifies the workflow for the administration of the Tasking Manager, specifically the oversight of projects. We are currently in Phase 1 of the Project.<br></li></ul><div>We hope to include this soon in the website and/or Tasking Manager documentation. </div><div><br></div><div>I would also like to invite you to join the <b>next QC/A WG meeting on 4 November at 18:00 UTC, post a message on the #quality_wg channel in <a href="http://slack.hotosm.org">HOTOSM Slack</a></b> <b>or email <a href="mailto:dataquality@hotosm.org">dataquality@hotosm.org</a></b> to discuss/raise any data quality concerns.</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks and have a great week!</div><div>=Arnalie</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 2:30 AM Pete Masters via HOT <<a href="mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org">hot@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Pierre, <br></div><div><br></div><div>I'm sorry but I'm not personally familiar with these specific projects (10852 or 3431). <br></div><div><br></div><div>On the OEG wiki page for this, it says to contact Janet of the Tanzania Development Trust but, you're right, it isn't super helpful in indicating how to do that. I have chatted to Janet and her contact details can be found <a href="https://crowd2map.org/about-us/" target="_blank">on their website</a> [<a href="https://crowd2map.org/about-us/" target="_blank">1</a>] and Janet has also said she will update the OEG page so the contact details are clearer...</div><div><br></div><div>I think she and the crowd2map team are best placed to speak to how useful the mapping is for their FGM prorammes and how they go about validating their projects - I don't think it's true to say that it does not contribute to spotting and correcting quality problems, but I know their team of validators are active and open to feedback. <br></div><div><br></div><div>In case it's useful, here is <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Working_groups/Community/Webinars#The_Importance_of_Data_Quality_in_Humanitarian_Mapping" target="_blank">a link to a webinar on data quality</a> [<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Working_groups/Community/Webinars#The_Importance_of_Data_Quality_in_Humanitarian_Mapping" target="_blank">2</a>], organised by the community working group, in which Simon Wild (one of the crowd2map validators) was on the panel.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I hope that helps...</div><div><br></div><div>Pete</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://crowd2map.org/about-us/I" target="_blank">https://crowd2map.org/about-us/</a></div><div>[2] <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Working_groups/Community/Webinars#The_Importance_of_Data_Quality_in_Humanitarian_Mapping" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Working_groups/Community/Webinars#The_Importance_of_Data_Quality_in_Humanitarian_Mapping</a></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 4:41 PM Pierre Béland <<a href="mailto:pierzenh@yahoo.fr" target="_blank">pierzenh@yahoo.fr</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Pete,<br><br>In the area reported by Mateusz, we observe various quality problems starting in 2018 and not fixed yet. <br><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">In the jan.2018 hotosm-project-3431 (#MissingMaps #OSMTanzania), the contour of the buildings block was<span> traced</span> with tag (building=yes) - <span><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/554273601" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/554273601</a></span>. I think that a landuse tag will be more appropriate.</div><br>With this second TM Project - hotosm-project-10852 (#TanzaniaDevelopmentTrust #Tanzania #missingmaps), the outlines of the long buildings that we observe on Bing imagery are not traced but we observe that wat seems to be artefacts on top of these buildings were traced as buildings. What's seem to be cars in a parking lot are also traced as buildings. And finally, quality of tracing building outlines is relatively bad.<br><br>After two TM projects and two validations in 4 years, I dont see how usefull is the mapping of this zone and how usefull is the validation process. It does not contribute to spot and correct quality problems.<br><br>Too often we see such projects and we have to question the coordination and tracability of such Organized editing projects - Who is really responsible and how easily contact them ?<br></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(0,0,191);font-weight:bold"> <br><font style="background-color:inherit" face="garamond, new york, times, serif">Pierre </font><br></span></div></div>
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Le dimanche 24 octobre 2021, 10 h 55 min 13 s UTC−4, Pete Masters via HOT <<a href="mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">hot@openstreetmap.org</a>> a écrit :
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<div><div id="gmail-m_-7836864721763488204gmail-m_3346674381453032141gmail-m_5136020907283701970ydpc3bc7731yiv0411204635"><div><div>Hi Mateusz, how are you?<div><br clear="none"></div><div>I think this is the relevant OEG page on the wiki.... <a shape="rect" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Organised_Editing/Activities/Crowd2Map_Tanzania" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Organised_Editing/Activities/Crowd2Map_Tanzania</a></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Pete </div></div><br clear="none"><div><div id="gmail-m_-7836864721763488204gmail-m_3346674381453032141gmail-m_5136020907283701970ydpc3bc7731yiv0411204635yqt71883"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, 22 Oct 2021, 14:59 Mateusz Konieczny via HOT, <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">hot@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Specifically, I want to check how validation of #hotosm-project-10852 is going<br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>I searched for 10852 Mbogwe TanzaniaDevelopmentTrust missingmaps on </div><div><a shape="rect" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Organised_Editing/Activities/Humanitarian_OpenStreetMap_Team" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Organised_Editing/Activities/Humanitarian_OpenStreetMap_Team</a><br clear="none"></div><div>and failed to find anything specific<br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>(triggered by <a shape="rect" href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/987138545/history" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/987138545/history</a> encountered<br clear="none"></div><div>while fixing another problem)<br clear="none"></div> </div>
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