[HOT] "Training" volunteers in Albania

[malenki]

Hi Blake, 

thank you for taking care!

Thomas

Blake Girardot schrieb
am Fri, 10 Apr 2015 13:48:05 +0200:

> Hi Malenki,
> 
> I have a good contact I can pass this on to.
> 
> Thank you for following up on it.
> 
> Cheers,
> Blake
> 
> 
> 
> On 4/10/2015 11:54 AM, malenki wrote:
> > About a month ago I stumbled over some beginners mapping in Tirana
> > (capital of Albania).
> > Though the edits were not too useful they were tagged with
> > #hotosm-project-926 #PeaceCorps #PeaceCorpsAlbania source=Bing
> > so I thought to do nothing for the time being since the connected
> > task http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/926 said
> > | The Peace Corps Program in Tirana is training Volunteers […]
> > But after a month the data isn't changed/corrected and my message¹
> > to the creator of the task sent on 24th of March still is not
> > answered.
> >
> > A mentioning of the issue on IRC on March 28th also don't give
> > results.
> >
> > My view of the issue is:
> > Which worth has a "training" when the trainees don't get feedback?
> > The creator of the task (which I assume the trainer) hasn't made a
> > single edit in Albania.
> > The data created during the task wasn't enhanced after creating it.
> >
> > Now I'd like to hand over the "issue" to people with more experience
> > in HOT.
> >
> > Regards
> > Thomas
> >
> > ¹ The message I sent:
> >
> > Mirëdita [Albanian "good day"] $User
> >
> > you created HOT task 926¹ for training volunteers in Albania.
> >
> > I welcome people mapping a country I really like and of course HOT
> > is an invaluable program. But when you are /training/ people you
> > should also teach them how to do stuff and give feedback to what
> > they mapped. Else they may produce just a lot of unhelpful data.
> >
> > I didn't investigate on purpose but so far I stumbled over following
> > issues:
> >
> >      duplicate houses (mapped by the same mapper
> >      https://www.osm.org/#map=21/41.3330021/19.7839432
> >      houses with offset to its basements
> >      https://www.osm.org/#map=20/41.333141/19.782218
> >      houses drawn over highways
> >      https://www.osm.org/#map=20/41.333141/19.782218
> >      ways of outlines only tagged with area=yes e.g.:
> >      https://www.osm.org/#map=19/41.334339/19.788208
> >      In Tirana I found 103 ways which were tagged this way and
> >      belong to HOT task 926.
> >
> > I also found a highway=road dragged over a correct highway which I
> > just corrected in the hope that the other stuff would be vanish due
> > to a training supervisor - which didn't happen.
> >
> > Please tell your trainees that, when they map the outline of a roof,
> > they should afterwards drag it to the ground floor of the building.
> > The higher the building the worse the offset due to the sloped
> > angle of the aerial photograph. Please also tell them about the
> > function "make rectangular" which every editor has. (When using
> > JOSM, don't forget to mention the plugin "buildings_tools" (which
> > enables drawing and tagging a house with two clicks) and the
> > extrude tool).
> >
> > Best Regards from Germany
> > Thomas
> >
> > ¹ http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/926
> >
> >
> >
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