[HOT] Request to those organising a maperthon.

[joost schouppe]

Yes, that first version with letters written in blood was a bit over the
top. Versions six is wonderful though.

Small tiles are always a good idea for new mappers, as it is motivating to
be able to finish a tile. However, I often do see mappers forgetting to
mark their tiles as finished. So I'm going to focus more on that at future
events.

We had someone remote validating by chance at one of our events, and that
was really useful. But mapathons tend to focus on "empty" projects, as new
mappers get confused if they choose a tile which is badly mapped but not
marked as validated - which does happen a lot. So the chance of finding a
validator active there is quite small.

It might be good if we set up a system to make it easier for validators and
event organizers to find each other? Newer organizers might not come here
to announce their event. And even putting them in the calendar isn't very
obvious. The most simple thing I can think of is to put "contact the HOT
mailing list once you've set a date and task, to see if someone might do
some live validation". What would you suggest?
This is a very practical question, as we're helping out a national
organisation of universities pull off a mapathon in 7 universities
simultaneously. See http://www.internationalmapyear.be/mapathon.php


2016-04-01 2:51 GMT+02:00 john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>:

> 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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