[HOT] Request to those organising a maperthon. -, validation support

[Martin Noblecourt]

Hi,

I actually like your last idea Blake!
I understand how it can be frustrating for validators like John to see loads of new mappers do errors on some projects, we're trying to do our best in capacity building when running mapathons but mistakes are always possible.
The closest we can put the validator to the new mapper is the best in my opinion: ideally in the same room (which is why we target to get validators during mapathons), or else simultaneously (or almost) if the validators are not there... so a way to identify the "main" validators for a task would indeed be interesting. Maybe I'm putting the cart before the wheels but having a way for people to "register" as validator to a project could be interesting for the projects managers? (and then a button "send a message to all validators" on which we can notify of upcoming mapathons :-) )

Finally, let's not forget that mapathons are not only a great way to bring new contributors but also to create awareness on OSM amongst people that are not familiar with it, including NGO workers and local communities, so it ultimately servers the purpose of the HOT community of bringing data to the people needing it :-)

Best regards.

Martin


Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 17:33:10 +0200
From: Blake Girardot<bgirardot at gmail.com>
To: Mike Thompson<miketho16 at gmail.com>, john whelan
	<jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>
Cc:"hot at openstreetmap.org"  <hot at openstreetmap.org>
Subject: Re: [HOT] Request to those organising a maperthon. -
	validation support
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Hi,

We do have an unused "validation" email group that was created with the
idea that people who were available and interested in doing validations
could share ideas, questions, tips, etc

And people who were running mapathons could easily notify people who
liked to do validation that they were running a mapathon and could use
some validation help during that time (not all mapathons need additional
validators)

I am happy to dust it off and make it easy to join and send
notifications too and make anyone who is interested a manager of the
email group.

It does not quite address Mike's question as to how to know someone(s)
are active and committed to validations on a particular project. But it
could help with that if people who were doing validations for a project
sent a notice to the group with an informative subject line like
"Project 1234 has validators dedicated to it"

Another option for Mike's question is for people who are making an
effort to validate a project contacted the project creator and put a
note in a box at the bottom of the instructions or description that said
something like "This project has active validators, please send a notice
to the validators list if you would like a review of your mapping for an
event or individually"

Anyway, kind of over complicated I know, but some ideas.

cheers
blake