[HOT] Request to those organising a maperthon.

[john whelan]

If you notice that the project you're planning to use has an active
validator please if possible give them some warning before your maperthon.
Finding a dozen tiles suddenly mapped by new mappers can be wonderful but
finding tiles marked done by a mapper who has not actually added anything
when there are a dozen settlements unmapped on the first, then settlements
but no highways at all on the second one examined does tend to dump on the
validator.
If there is a bit of prior warning sometimes additional resources can be
found to validate.

Secondly for new mappers please split the tiles as much as possible.  That
gives the validator a chance to correct the mappers before they repeat the
errors too many times.

So far on this particular project groups of buildings have been tagged
building=residential rather than landuse=residential, then we have
landuse=residential, great but with the additional tag of name=houses so be
nice and verify your training guides are simple and clear to understand.

Yes I know I'm supposed to be polite and say everything is wonderful, this
is the very polite version the first five versions have been heavily
censored.

Many Thanks

John
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