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Hi,<br>
<br>
I'd like to get in first with a few words of thanks. I'm sure there
will be more from the experts, but here's my comments.<br>
<br>
Yesterday evening saw over 50 people in a large room at the MSF
offices in London learning a little more about mapping & the
Missing Maps project <a
href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Missing_Maps_Project">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Missing_Maps_Project.</a>
Many of them had no mapping experience at all at the start of the
evening. We managed to cover the basics of getting started in
mapping for HOT, and provided enough information for them to get
started. We concentrated on tasks;<br>
<a href="http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/586">http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/586</a>
& on the Lesotho tasks.<br>
<br>
Validating is an extremely good way of giving feedback to new
mappers - please consider doing a little validating (<a
href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Tasking_Manager/Validating_data">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Tasking_Manager/Validating_data</a>
for more info about validating), and if you are validating, please
be kind. We all have to start somewhere & a little encouragement
goes a long way. A positive word or link to where to get help to
avoid a problem pasted into the comments box when you validate is
all it needs.<br>
<br>
Personally I had a great evening, and that was due to the people who
worked so hard to make it happen. I don't know all the names, so
I've now reached the awkward bit where I flounder with what to say.
I do know that (no particular order) Dan Stowell, Derick Rethans,
Pete Masters, Andrew Braye, Harry Wood, Steve Pike, & Nataly
Raab all deserve medals, but I also know there were other people
working away in the background who made sure that all sorts of
things that have to happen, actually did, and the things that need
to happen for the future actually will. <br>
<br>
As I said, Thank you - please help again, it is appreciated!<br>
<br>
And for the future - well, yes please. And we'd like more help
please. You may not consider yourself an expert, but if you know any
of the following, you could make future events go even better;<br>
where the tasking manager is & how to log in,<br>
how to load the imagery, <br>
how to install JOSM in Windows, Mac or Linux,<br>
what remote control in JOSM is, and how to set it up,<br>
how to zoom, scroll, copy & paste with a mac, (in fact, just
about anything / everything with a mac!)<br>
how to map in iD<br>
how to upload to OSM<br>
etc., etc<br>
..... if you're reading this email your probably an expert to any
new mappers, even if you don't think so. You don't have to stand in
front of a group of people & talk - I & others are willing
to do that bit, but we do need mappers who know at least the basics
to help the brand new ones get through that first little hurdle.<br>
<br>
Thanks for reading<br>
<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Missing_Maps_Project"></a>
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