<div dir="ltr"><div>Well said.<br><br></div><div>If all the buildings are present now in New York, the focus of the local community can shift to entering whihc POIs are where. Adding buildings is a tedious job. Adding POIs is too, but it becomes a lot easier to do correctly when the buildings are there, including all the addresses.<br>
</div><div><br></div>Polyglot<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-07-16 2:46 GMT+02:00 Jason Remillard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:remillard.jason@gmail.com" target="_blank">remillard.jason@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<div class=""><br>
> - Paid staff<br>
> The question was raised on if paid staff would be used for this. The wiki<br>
> says no money is being exchanged for work - does this mean that all work<br>
> will be done by volunteers?<br>
><br>
> - Remote mappers<br>
> Will many remote mappers be involved, particularly paid ones?<br>
<br>
</div>I believe it is entirely possible to do a good import with paid remote mappers.<br>
<br>
We care about making sure that everybody who is touching the import<br>
knows what they are doing. For example, I suggest all of the following<br>
items are requires knowledge before participating in an import.<br>
<br>
- What's a relation is?<br>
- Difference between highway=trunk, and highway=service,<br>
- How to tag schools,<br>
- How to replace geometry in JOSM, and when should it be used.<br>
- What are image offsets, and how to apply them in JOSM,<br>
- What are change set comments.<br>
- Have they gone and mapped their local neighborhood by hand<br>
<br>
If they are doing an address import, do they understand<br>
- when to tag a building, when to put the address on a node,<br>
- how to tag address interpolation,<br>
- how to handle new addresses and existing POI's,<br>
- what are all of the address tags<br>
<br>
community<br>
<br>
- What to do with OSM messages<br>
- What is the DWG, and what does it mean when they write you a message.<br>
<br>
The problems with the paid NY mappers were training/process issues. We<br>
all can think of examples of somebody new to OSM trying to help with<br>
an import and making lots mistakes. Its an old problem really.<br>
<br>
I would like to suggest less focus on who is working for who and more<br>
focus on insuring that everybody involved has the training needed. If<br>
people are involved that are new to OSM, the organizer of the import<br>
needs to think about and perhaps discuss the plan for onboarding<br>
everybody involved.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Jason<br>
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