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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Sep 20, 2021, 20:42 by me-osm-talk-gb@keepawayfromfire.co.uk:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>On Thu, 2021-09-16 at 19:55 +0100, Brian Prangle wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div>Why don't you recruit mappers for this<br></div><div>activity from the UK? The local chapter OSMUK operates a talent pool<br></div><div><https://osmuk.org/professional-services/> for mappers who are<br></div><div>seeking<br></div><div>paid<br></div><div>work. You'd get a much higher quality input, have the ability to<br></div><div>ground<br></div><div>truth things and not piss off the OSM UK community so much. Or just<br></div><div>publish a list of errors as you see them by county and let the local<br></div><div>community clear things up?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>+1 on this. Employing people from the local community, and making the<br></div><div>QA tools public for everyone to improve OSM seem like reasonable things<br></div><div>to me.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">It would make sense.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But it would be hard to find people from UK willing to work for what Mapbox<br></div><div dir="auto">pays in Belarus.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And even if someone would find willing people it would be <br></div><div dir="auto">likely below minimum wage in UK.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Though it does mean that training of Mapbox employees will need to be longer,<br></div><div dir="auto">before they will start mapping.<br></div> </body>
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