<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Celina, your initiatives are laudable. The organized editing guidelines adopted by the OSMF was based on feedback and inputs from individuals and groups from various communities around the globe, borne out of their own experience with previous directed editing efforts, and the call for prudent approaches towards the challenge of improving OSM data.<br></div><div><br></div><div>For anyone else who might be curious, the OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF) defines organized editing as "... any edits that involve more
than one person and can be grouped under one or more sizeable,
substantial, coordinated editing initiatives." If there are discussions about any exception relating to any effort, the same OSMF guidelines require such discussions to be open, public, and archived. <br></div><div><br></div><div>The only special case to the guideline are response activities related to impending or on-going emergencies, where no advance discussion is
possible. Even in such cases, they are not exempted, but are required to comply as soon as is practical. <br></div><div><br></div><div>The only way any community can grow is to embrace newcomers. There are no ways around that. The guidelines ensure that preparations are made to teach, coach, support new editors, promote best practices, and avoid beginners' errors like this from happening in the first place:</div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:168f934b804cb971f162" alt="image.png" style="max-width: 100%; opacity: 1;" class=""><br></div><div><br></div><div>Should that happen, as they often will, the post-clean-up and validation process plans would be able address them, allowing the community to have reasonable expectations about when the validation can happen. Hopefully, such validation is planned to happen sooner, rather than letting suspicious edits remain in the database for months or years after.</div><div><br></div><div>The public also benefits from the provisions of the guideline, with more information about the individuals, directors, and collaborators involved in the project, providing a better understanding of who they are, and what their goals are.</div><div><br></div><div>We're looking forward to the information you're going to provide in your project's OSM wiki page.</div><div><br></div><div>/erwin<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 6:43 PM maning sambale <<a href="mailto:emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com">emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>I’ve had discussions with OSMF and HOT the guidelines don’t really apply to volunteer mapping parties <br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>This is great information. May we get a public record of this
discussion? I was not personally aware of exemptions in the guidelines
provided by the OSMF:</div><div><a href="https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/w/images/6/62/Organised_Editing_Guidelines.pdf" target="_blank">https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/w/images/6/62/Organised_Editing_Guidelines.pdf</a></div> </div></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">This kicks off a four month first phase initiative as we continue field
work and OSM mapping workshops, map validation and community building
across 60 local municipalities and NGOs in Mindanao.</div></blockquote><div> </div></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>The above statements does not add up to me based on the previous statement that this is a volunteer effort though.<br></div></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div> </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="auto">For the validation, we have a support group to help ensure new mappers have a positive experience and aren’t intimidated by other mapper’s comments. They will tag their edits as #newbie. Local Youthmappers chapters, George Washington University Humanitarianian Mapping Society, and HOT will support the validation of their edits and provide community and technical support. <br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Looking forward to the validation process!<br></div><div> </div></div><div dir="ltr" class="m_-2253859573860964688gmail_signature">cheers,<br>maning<br>------------------------------------------------------<br>"Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden<br><a href="https://github.com/maning" target="_blank">https://github.com/maning</a><br><a href="http://twitter.com/maningsambale" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/maningsambale</a><br>------------------------------------------------------</div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p>/Erwin Olario<br></p><p dir="ltr">e: <a href="mailto:erwin@ngnuity.xyz">erwin@ngnuity.xyz</a> | v/m: <a href="https://t.me/GOwin">https://t.me/GOwin</a> | s: <a href="https://mstdn.io/@GOwin">https://mstdn.io/@GOwin</a><br></p>
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