[HOT] NB: Organised Editing Guidelines | Re: Final Request: Volunteers Needed for Global Mapathons!

[Mikel Maron]

Important to note the guidelines are suggestions not enforced requirements of the OSMF. More on that in the blog post 
https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2019/02/09/organised-editing-guidelines/ 
My opinion is master list of mapathons is a very good idea. I don’t think the wiki is best system suited to be the place for that primary list. Another tool could mirror to the wiki for archiving purposes.
I agree with Pierre. Data quality needs to become a primary focus of these and other mapping activities asap. Otherwise it’s not valuable experience for those present or everyone else working with OSM data. I think that will take more than trend, but a substantial direct investment by HOT, Missing Maps and others in systematically operationalizing data quality improvements across through training, monitoring, etc.

Mikel

On Wednesday, March 27, 2019, 11:22 AM, Pierre Béland via HOT <hot at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

Shoud I insist, we also need a new trend where such projects take responsability to produce quality data.  Badly, too often, this is not what we observe.  For the Ebola response in North Kivu, the coordinators, we had to restart the mapping of Butembo in december since the data produced by newbies was so imprecise, so incomplete.
Adequate training material and mapathon procedures need to be developped for Live data monitoring, interaction with newbies, and correct immediately quality problems. 
 
Pierre 
 

    Le mercredi 27 mars 2019 10 h 40 min 07 s HAE, Rory McCann <rory at technomancy.org> a écrit :  
 
 The OSM community & Foundation has recently adopted the Organised
Editing Guidelines, to guide events like this. The community wants to
help you make this a successful mapathon.

In emails like this, and in accordance with the OEG, you should link to
the wiki page(s) describing your mapathon.

https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Organised_Editing_Guidelines

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Organised_Editing/Activities


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