[HOT] New mapper needs some feedback :-)

Robert Banick rbanick at gmail.com
Wed Feb 3 10:12:05 UTC 2016


Hi Martin,

I didn’t have time to review your work, but just wanted to add: don’t
despair if you complete some tiles and they aren’t promptly validated! HOT
has grown a lot in the past year or so and we have a lot more mappers than
validators as a result. So sometimes it can take a little time to get a
response. Posting to the listserv like you did is a great way to call
attention to tiles that need a second look. Welcome to OSM and keep on
mapping!

— Robert

On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 3:35 PM Shawn Day <day.shawn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well done Martin. I just took a quick look at tile 371.
> It is well mapped and you did a very fine job.
> There are a few things I corrected in validating.
> 1. In a couple cases when you  squared the buildings, they grew in size
> (as they do and most were well squared) and needed to be slightly reduced
> in size to match the underlying imagery.
> 2. In a few cases the building encompassed the walled yard - the imagery
> is soft and light so easily done. Reduced the area to the building.
> 3. In a few cases, there were overlaps between buildings - again suspect
> that in the squaring function, the revised shape grew and caused the
> overlap - there was an overlap or two between roadways (well defined btw)
> buildings.
> 4. And as we all have a few errant buildings that somehow escaped
> the squaring function.
> Overall, a well done tile and well done by you.
> Keep on mapping.
>
>
> ~~ day.shawn at gmail.com
> ~~ @iridium
>
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 9:37 a.m., Martin Weil <mweil at postia.de> wrote:
>
> Hi there!
>
> I am new to HOT and started mapping a few days ago. As far as I can see,
> non of the tiles that I finished were validated yet, so I don’t know if the
> work I am doing is ok, or I am just creating a lot more work for others to
> clean up my mess. I would like to avoid that. :-)
>
> I read basically everything on learnosm.org apart from the JOSM part that
> I will start when I am more confident that my mapping quality is ok. But
> the examples are quite trivial and I could not find much information on
> what to map and not to map in cities/towns.
>
> Also I see a lot of tiles where there is a misalignment between the bing
> imagery and the mapped buildings, mostly because people looked at the map
> box data and aligned their traces accordingly, and I guess some were just
> too much in a hurry to align properly. But since I am new I don’t want to
> judge.
>
> So, if anyone has a bit of time to spare, I’d like some feedback on the
> work I did so far.
>
> Thank you very much.
> Martin (flubby)
>
> Some tiles I finished:
>
> http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/884#task/377
> http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/884#task/375
> http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/884#task/20
> http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/884#task/371
> http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/884#task/374
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