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

[Steve Bower]

Graham,
Excellent questions on an important topic - I think HOT has improved its
mentoring & management of validation & validators, and needs to continue
that effort.

There is a validation course at the HOT Training Center [1], "required
training for, and will teach the essential knowledge required to, perform
the Validation Role during an Activation". I have not taken the course, and
don't know if/how it is "enforced" as a required course.

Regarding "coaching", questioned in your summary list of key points : I
think the point is that validators need to be good coaches, giving feedback
to the mappers being validated (as John clarified). Feedback from
validators has in the past been largely lacking, in my limited experience -
hence new mappers don't always learn from their mistakes. The Tasking
Manager could be enhanced to simplify and encourage feedback from
validators to appropriate mappers.

Mike Thompson : Regarding:

"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."


I would give the feedback that it was not necessary to trace the tracks,
and that it would be preferable to stick to the requested features in the
future in order to complete the project as quickly as possible. However,
they were traced correctly, and thank you for the contribution and your
extra work. (As John said, in general the work of others should not be
deleted, only corrected as needed.)

[1] http://courses.hotosm.org/course/index.php?categoryid=2

Cheers,
~~Steve



On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Mike Thompson <miketho16 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 11:25 AM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
> It would be more clear and obvious if highway=service appeared in the
> table with the other possible values, but I will accept this as indicating
> that we should "highway=service" roads in Africa.
>
>
>>
>> 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.
>>
> Good advice
>
>>
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