[HOT] Tracing tagged buildings

[john whelan]

Two points the first is HOT does have a different more standardized
approach than OSM.  Perhaps these are our conventions please follow them?
I've seen some very experienced mappers not follow the HOT conventions.

Second I understand the desire to use tools to see how big each building is
but a problem I see when validating is some building shapes do not
correspond to the actual building size nor are they rectangular so wonder
how useful they are.

I do accept that 90% are probably OK.

Cheerio John

On 4 May 2015 at 11:54, Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> + 1 with Robert statement.
>
> We have a lot of new contributions for such OSM responses in the
> emergency. This is how many of us have started to contribute to OSM. We
> need to be careful how we contact people to talk about improving mapping
> quality.
>
> We should offer a standard message for this. And yes, it is important to
> be polite. This is a stressing situation, we all want to help. Let's make
> it interesting for all. You can either invite to exchange on the IRC or
> offer some help through skype sharing your screen.
>
> After 9 days of response, we can say that we had difficulties, access
> problem to post-disaster imagery with this rainy season. But we are there
> to support people isolated in various areas and that need help rapidly.
>
> Let's focus on helping them, and this with a positive spirit.
>
> On the long term, we should surely continue to develop tools for easier
> monitoring of new contributions. For this activation, various initiatives
> are taken. These should help to define content and develop such tools.
>
> Thanks to all, to those that take initiatives, participate to the various
> support groups like the Evaluation group. This group is looking at
> validating rapidly and contact new contributors. If there are some
> experimented contributors that want to participate, contact activation @
> hotosm.org
>
> cheeers
>
>
> Pierre
>
>   ------------------------------
>  *De :* Robert Banick <rbanick at gmail.com>
> *À :* Klaus Hartl <k127 at gmx.de>
> *Cc :* hot at openstreetmap.org
> *Envoyé le :* Lundi 4 mai 2015 8h11
> *Objet :* Re: [HOT] Tracing tagged buildings
>
> Hi Klaus,
>
>  *First of all,* thanks for providing such a measured response to a not
> very measured message. I’m sorry you got such a rude message in the first
> place and want to assure you that it doesn’t reflect HOT’s attitude, both
> stated by the organization and unstated within the community, towards
> errors by new contributors. Everyone has to start somewhere and errors are
> inevitable.
>
>  *Secondly*, I do have to agree with the point of the message. The fact
> is your iterative work process doesn’t fit with the contribution-validation
> process HOT has set up to make it easy for everyone to work together.
> There’s no graceful way in the technical tools or HOT’s workflow to reflect
> that buildings-as-nodes are a transitional step by you towards perfect
> data. Thus it creates the potential for others to waste time “correcting”
> what seems like a mistake.
>
> I can understand how this system would work really well when you’re
> managing a task or area by yourself. But HOT tasks are done with others and
> the system is designed so that we build on one another’s work. Also
> consider that no responding agencies are looking for buildings as nodes and
> hence your transitional data adds no value until entered as an area.
>
>  *Finally*, a gentle reminder to experienced: if you encounter systematic
> errors from users, however seemingly basic or disastrous, please give them
> the benefit of the doubt with a *nice* message. Inviting new users to
> contribute guarantees mistakes, but it creates a lot more value than harm:
> we have to accept the mistakes as part of the process. If I was a new user
> and read the message above I guarantee I would be scared off mapping — and
> that means HOT just lost a potential longtime contributor.
>
> Best,
> Robert
>
>
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