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

[john whelan]

If you read through the wiki it specifically mentions highway=service.

>By default, primary/secondary/tertiary/unclassified/residential and
service highway <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway>=* are
supposed to be paved.

When I'm validating then I consider I'm validating the work done by HOT
mappers on this project on the tile.  Any previous work that was there
before I consider governed by the general rules of OSM ie don't touch it
unless its very clearly wrong and even then there is a long winded protocol
that it is recommended you follow.  I certainly won't delete anything
because it wasn't there on the image.  <Crtl>i can be helpful and looking
at the number of edits the mapper has made can give you a clue as well.

This one is just highways, but there are other objects and HOT projects on
the same area.  If JOSM Validation throws up an error or warning on
something not in the project I will check it and correct the error or
warning but its a value judgement sometimes.

Cheerio John

On 8 April 2016 at 11:36, Mike Thompson <miketho16 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
>
>> ​
>> 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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