[Imports] Special training needed for imports? Re: Import Plan for Buildings & Address in Washington, DC, USA

[Brian DeRocher]

Serge,

On Monday 2014 July 21 06:26:46 Serge Wroclawski wrote:
> There's also another aspect to training, which is that ideally we
> want not just data entry people, but real community members. We want
> people who will have a sense of pride about OSM, who will have a
> sense of community pride.

I'm glad you raised this point.  I agree.  I feel it's important to have seasoned mappers among your import team.  This is why i'm opening the DC import to a broader audience via MappingDC.  Already there are a few people interested in participating.  For DC, Steven Johnson and i will be training DC interns, but i intend to have this training posted online.   This way the training can be refined by experts, learned from, and improved upon. Ideally this documentation can be re-used for future imports.

We'll post it online via GitHub like this: http://mappingdc.github.io/osmbiketrails  unless there's a better idea.

Knowing that DC is a city of transient people, yourself included ;), i hope some DCers will move to new cities and facilitate imports of their own, as you've done.

Brian

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