[HOT] Progression, Re: Mapping buildings with new mappers at a maperthon

[Bjoern Hassler]

Dear friends,

Not in direct response to John, but on a tangent.

Do people who organise mapathons have a sense of how many people come again
vs. those who only come once? Do you have specific strategies to encourage
people to come back?

Do you have a plan for progression moving people onto JOSM, or as John
suggests starting some/all on JOSM? Then moving people to validation?

Would be interested to hear!
Bjoern

On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 at 00:20, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not a great person for maperthons, the last one I attended could have
> gone a little smoother, there was a time delay before mapping.  They were
> mapping buildings and highways and although they were mapping for some time
> no tiles were completed.
>
> Recently there was another one locally which I drifted down to and I did
> the patter.  I took two laptops with JOSM preinstalled and set them up.
>
> As new mappers came in I just asked them to sit down at the laptops and
> start mapping with the building tool.  Then we set up their laptops with
> JOSM and they continued on their own machines installing JOSM, I think one
> needed to download JAVA and I had JOSM an a DVD.  They then continued
> mapping.  We had them mapping their first building within minutes.  The big
> delay was setting up an OSM account and logging into the task manager.
>
> 12-15 people registered we had six mappers eventually, four were new to
> JOSM.  They mapped buildings quite quickly and I guarantee all were square,
> all were correctly tagged and none were more than six inches out of place.
> Most were spot on in Bing.  Tiles were completed and not just ones without
> buildings in them we deliberately pointed them to tiles that had a fair
> number of buildings in them.
>
> As they mapped they became more adventurous in drawing two squares on an L
> shaped building and joining them together.  We knew that one section was a
> caravan park so the mapper explored the tags and found
> building=static_caravan and was delighted to find they could select all the
> static_caravans and retag them all at once.
>
> One new mapper was a teacher so since we had a very experienced iD mapper
> there after she had been mapping in JOSM for a period of time I got him to
> show her how to map in iD.  Her comment was not so complex to set up in
> that you didn't need to start JOSM first but per building it was more mouse
> clicks involved and more to remember.
>
> I don't know if the group of mappers we had was small enough we could give
> them a bit more one on one or they were just exceptionally good new
> mappers.  They all had Windows machines to work on.
>
> I do know that Jo has had some similar results going directly to JOSM for
> new mappers.
>
> It does look as if going JOSM and the building_tool plugin is a viable
> route for new mappers mapping buildings in maperthons.  Both the quantity
> per mapper and the data quality of the mapped buildings was high.
>
> Cheerio John
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