[HOT] How to become a validator (a suggestion)

[Mike Thompson]

John,

Last night I validated one of the tasks (I have done quite a bit of
validating before on a couple of other projects). I ran into these dilemmas:

1) If the instructions explicitly say not to map something (e.g. tracks)
but some were mapped and were done so correctly by the generally accepted
practices in OSM, do you leave them?  I did.

2) If something was mapped that the African Highway Tagging[1] doesn't
cover, but we might otherwise in the larger OSM map, what does a validator
do?  For example, highway=service. Does one "force fit" the mapped way into
the African Tagging (e.g. perhaps highway=service becomes
highway=residential), use what is generally accepted in OSM, or?

Thanks,

Mike

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa


On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 5:28 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> MSF have been doing some very interesting projects recently, for example
> one is http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1669 is just roads so if you fancy
> trying your hand at validation and have a copy of JOSM around try your hand.
>
> Cheerio John​
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