<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Tracey, as promised I started some documentation on what errors I'm seeing quite often. I will be updating it later during my lunch hour with more examples:</div><div><a href="https://github.com/TraceyLauriault/COMS2200A/issues/19">https://github.com/TraceyLauriault/COMS2200A/issues/19</a><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 11:08 PM, Steve Singer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve@ssinger.info" target="_blank">steve@ssinger.info</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Tue, 10 Oct 2017, Tracey P. Lauriault wrote:<br>
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Greetings OSM mappers;<br>
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For the benefit of background to others on the list<br>
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<a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/1560" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/u<wbr>ser_blocks/1560</a><br>
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Is an example of the block message that was sent to a bunch of users.<br>
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(I wasn't involved in asking for or implementing the blocks or have anything to do with the assignment).<br>
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I haven't looked at the edits in any details but I will make a few general comments<br>
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1. If one user comes into OSM and makes a few changes with issues because of misunderstandings or inexperience fixing those changes isn't a big deal. Most of the time someone will just fix them without saying anything. However if 30 or 300 users make lots of changes in a short amount of time with the same types of errors the volume present challenges. Large scale edits by a bunch who are doing it as part of a course, or who are employed by a company to make the changes, or who are doing so as part of a coordinated humanitarian effort have the potential to cause problems if they aren't coordinated carefully.<br>
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2. A big part of working in any open-source project particularly with OSM is that you need to communicate with the other contributors. Communication is a two way street, some people are better at it then others and it doesn't come naturally to everyone. I would hope that a course that covered the contributing to open source projects (including open data contributions) covered interacting with the community. If the course only wanted to give students experience with the tools then editing against a test or development instance of OSM would be better.<br>
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The advise I would give to people new to the open source communities(and at times remind veterans) is believe that most people who are contributing are coming from a place of good intentions and to give them the benefit of the doubt and try to understand where they are coming from.<br>
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When contributing to an open sourced project you need to take responsibility (as an individual) for your contributions but that doesn't mean they need to be, or will be perfect. No edits are perfect but people need to be willing to listen to and learn from feedback from other members of the community.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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I understand that students for COMS2200 have been blocked from posting to OSM.<br>
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There was also an unfortunate email sent to Carleton University by one of your members that is circulating<br>
through the administration from (<a href="mailto:james2432@gmail.com" target="_blank">james2432@gmail.com</a>).<br>
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The data are being contributed as part of an assignment described here -<br>
<a href="https://github.com/TraceyLauriault/COMS2200A" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/TraceyLauri<wbr>ault/COMS2200A</a><br>
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I understand that the students are making some small and some large mistakes that may not meet your OSM<br>
data quality standards. The students are restricted to only be mapping the Carleton University Campus.<br>
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I wonder if it might be possible to unlock the restriction to let them finish the assignment. They should<br>
be done by next week. There are 150 students. Once the assignment is complete I would gladly work with you<br>
to salvage the data, delete some data, repair some data or wipe all of the data.<br>
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We apologize for this inconvenience and hope that you can be empathetic and allow for the assignment to be<br>
completed so that the students can be assessed.<br>
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Also, perhaps there are a number of common errors and if you identify them we may be able to fix them.<br>
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Sincerely<br>
Tracey<br>
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Tracey P. Lauriault<br>
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Assistant Professor Critical Media Studies and Big Data<br>
Communication Studies<br>
School of Journalism and Communication<br>
Suite 4110, River Building<br>
Carleton University<br>
1125 Colonel By Drive<br>
Ottawa (ON) K1S 5B6<br>
<a href="tel:1-613-520-2600%20x7443" value="+16135202600" target="_blank">1-613-520-2600 x7443</a><br>
Tracey.Lauriault@Carleton.ca<br>
@TraceyLauriault<br>
Skype: Tracey.P.Lauriault<br>
<a href="https://carleton.ca/sjc/people-archives/lauriault-tracey/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://carleton.ca/sjc/people<wbr>-archives/lauriault-tracey/</a><br>
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