<html>
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
  </head>
  <body>
    <p>Hi Rory,</p>
    <p>let's include the list, so you're talking with the whole
      community, not just to me.</p>
    <p>BACKGROUND: we're trying to have the YouthMappers Chapter of the
      University of Panama consider they're mapping within OSM, that
      there's a local community of mappers already mapping, and with
      some experience in different fields.</p>
    <p>unfortunately, the YMUP Chapter refuses to reply to comments to
      their changesets, or to consider complaints about their low
      quality of edits, and the sheer mass of beginners they throw into
      not-too-simple tasks.  recently they had their yearly "Gis Day",
      please don't ask me what it is, because I don't know, only that
      there's a hashtag being used once a year by the YouthMappers UP
      Chapter.  also please don't ask me who's inside this chapter,
      because I don't know.</p>
    <p>when Mateusz wrote to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:info@youthmappers.org">info@youthmappers.org</a> about their organized
      editing activity without declaration of intents, the result of his
      writing was that HOT opened two projects on top of two areas we
      from the community were editing using the tasking manager from
      tareas.openstreetmap.co, forcing us to clean up the edits while
      they were coming in.  that's Santiago and Colón.<br>
    </p>
    <p>in Santiago we reverted several changesets, and made the effort
      to close their project so they would stay away from the work which
      was anyway almost complete.<br>
    </p>
    <p>in Colón we stopped editing downtown, leaving it to the YMUP
      Chapter.</p>
    <p>there's still no published plan from the chapter, Rory says that
      they are reviewing the tasks they had opened, but apart from
      beginner mapper <a
        href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/agreenish">agreenish</a>,
      arguably adding to the mass of mistakes, I don't see much editing
      activity in either project.</p>
    I will write a diary entry, with images, and will try to make it a
    structured presentation of what goes on here.  there's statistical
    data I've collected that shows just how organized the edits from
    YMUP, and I find it quite insulting, the mismatch between the words
    by YouthMappers International, the call for patience by HOT, and the
    continued self-boasting by this local Chapter, while we need to do
    the cleaning up.<br>
    <p>you know … I am editing Morocco, that's more relaxing.  hopefully
      no YouthMappers there.<br>
    </p>
    <p>ciao,</p>
    <p>Mario<br>
    </p>
    <p><br>
    </p>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/12/2020 15:52, Rory Nealon wrote:<br>
    </div>
    <blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:CAGW9XKr1kopSuF3H=oms4F=2Z+L3KBtFSM5CKvL2OfqfEpuopA@mail.gmail.com">
      <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
      <div dir="ltr">Hi Mario, 
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>Sorry for not getting back to you sooner.  I will try and
          contact the chapter and get an answer for you.  The last I
          heard was that they had begun to validate the tasks they had
          created.
          <div><br>
          </div>
          <div>Cheers,</div>
          <div><br>
          </div>
          <div><br>
          </div>
          <div>Rory</div>
        </div>
      </div>
      <br>
      <div class="gmail_quote">
        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 4:53
          PM Mario Frasca <<a href="mailto:mario@anche.no"
            moz-do-not-send="true">mario@anche.no</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">Dear
          Rory,<br>
          <br>
          let me insist, I wish to have an estimate of how long we
          should wait, <br>
          for the YMUP to review their edits?<br>
          <br>
          as you have read from his complaint to YMI, Markusz assumes
          something <br>
          like "at the end of the day", even if he wrote the complaint 4
          days <br>
          after the edit — which he fixed himself.<br>
          <br>
          maybe too strict myself, because I would say "the next day",
          which could <br>
          be "the next available day".<br>
          <br>
          in particular since this looks like episodic edits, not
          ongoing activities.<br>
          <br>
          so, what is the time we should allow before concluding they
          abandoned <br>
          the location?<br>
          <br>
          a week?  (slow, but could fit in a low activity group)<br>
          <br>
          a month?  (very slow, one forgets what they were doing)<br>
          <br>
          a year?  (ah? next group, please?)<br>
          <br>
          best regards, Mario Frasca<br>
          <br>
        </blockquote>
      </div>
      <br clear="all">
      <div><br>
      </div>
      -- <br>
      <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">
        <div dir="ltr">
          <div dir="ltr">
            <div dir="ltr">
              <div dir="ltr">
                <div dir="ltr">
                  <div dir="ltr">
                    <div dir="ltr">
                      <div dir="ltr">
                        <div dir="ltr">
                          <div dir="ltr">
                            <div dir="ltr">
                              <div dir="ltr">
                                <div dir="ltr">
                                  <div style="font-size:12.8px"><span>
                                      <div
                                        style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:small"><b><i><font
                                              size="1">Rory Nealon
                                              (he/him)</font></i></b></div>
                                      <div
                                        style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:small"><b><i><font
                                              size="1">Senior GIS
                                              Analyst & YouthMappers
                                              Activity Manager</font></i></b></div>
                                      <div
                                        style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:small"><b><i><font
                                              size="1">US Agency for
                                              International Development</font></i></b></div>
                                      <div
                                        style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:small"><b><i><font
                                              size="1">Washington, DC</font></i></b></div>
                                      <div
                                        style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:small"><b><i><font
                                              size="1">+1 202.468.7890</font></i></b></div>
                                      <div
                                        style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:small"><b><i><font
                                              size="1"><a
                                                href="https://pages.usaid.gov/theLab/CGS/geocenter"
style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">GeoCenter
                                                MyUSAID Site</a></font></i></b></div>
                                      <p dir="ltr"
                                        style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,32,91);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p>
                                      <div
                                        style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:small"><font
                                          style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"
                                          size="1"><i><b><a
href="https://usaid.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=92ef58b1014745c5b2a3338c42fd3674"
style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">The
                                                Geographic Approach to
                                                Development</a></b></i></font></div>
                                      <br>
                                      <br>
                                    </span></div>
                                </div>
                              </div>
                            </div>
                          </div>
                        </div>
                      </div>
                    </div>
                  </div>
                </div>
              </div>
            </div>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </blockquote>
  </body>
</html>