[HOT] Validation

Nick Allen nick.allen.54 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 16 00:09:31 UTC 2015


John,

I tend to vary it a bit - My normal comment in the box is something like
'imagery was probably slow to load which is why they were missed', but then
I often add a link to something like
http://learnosm.org/en/coordination/remote/#buildings-compounds-amp-barriers
and a casual comment about round huts being explained there, just in case
the mapper isn't recognising them.

Sometimes I'm quite happy to do a lot of missed mapping on the basis that
it can be quite relaxing & pleasant to do so!  If I do add the missing
bits, I normally still add the link & send the message just in case there
is a learning point. When I'm validating for a mapathon I try to actually
see the mapper & get them to add the missing bits.

Although quality control is important, helping each other is more
important. I don't like to see squares invalidated for little reason as it
tends to lead to ill feeling.

I only ever invalidate if there is a lot missing though - we can all miss a
couple of buildings on occasion. I have genuinely had imagery fail to load
properly, so I missed an entire area at one point, and only picked up on it
when working on the adjoining square & realising there had to be something
I had missed.

Keep up the good work.

Regards

NIck
(Tallguy)

Nick

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On 15 February 2015 at 23:55, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mapping in Africa from satellite images I find I'm adding perhaps half a
> dozen settlements when I validate, they're quite quick and easy to do.
> Some are huts and are not quite so easy to spot.
>
> Question at what point should I invalidate?  The question arises when
> perhaps I've added a dozen settlements and half a dozen highways, I'm
> fairly experienced so fairly comfortable the work is OK after I've added in
> the validation but there is the question that I've added a dozen
> settlements and no one else will be validating.
>
> I'm looking more for pragmatic answers more than anything else, there is a
> concern that if I invalidate a tile it may demotivate a mapper and at the
> moment we have a lot of tiles to map.
>
> Thanks
>
> Cheerio John
>
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