[Learnosm-coord] Fwd: [CrisisMappers] Mapping South Sudan on OSM

[Severin Menard]

Dear Learn OSM Coord team,

It is my pleasure to introduce you David Litke, who coordinated, along with
Heather Milton, a GISCorps <http://giscorps.org/> (one partner VTC from the
DHN) Activation (please correct me David regarding the right denomination)
 to join the HOT Activation in South Sudan. Their team mapped the large
town of Malakal, first with the Bing Imagery
(here<http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/400>is the TM job),
then with imagery provided through the HIU "Imagery for the Crowd" program
(TM job here <http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/413>).

Basically their team was made of GIS skilled people from around the world,
but with generally no experience at all in OSM. I provided them the links
to LearnOSM and they used it, but they felt the need to write a document
for people only jumping in OSM through the Tasking
Manager<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZtNrmYlF9-hVbIRyzzjfJvuwB01dJfijr-Ug_jgYSX4/edit>(what
is, basically is the majority of HOT contributors) and available a
few hours a day for this purpose + we had some interesting Q&A
exchanges<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1quoubTbz-3wyPzVuZ-Hccnl33DGwk8aqoCQYhYHOXXA/edit>
that
provide a good feedback from new mappers.

I think it would be valuable to review these documents and see how they
could be integrated to LearnOSM, and David would be glad to help for this.

Sincerely,

Severin


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Litke <dwlitke at comcast.net>
Date: Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 4:39 AM
Subject: Re: [CrisisMappers] Mapping South Sudan on OSM
To: Severin Menard <severin.menard at gmail.com>
Cc: David Litke <dwlitke at comcast.net>


  Severin,

I have signed up to the LearnOSM coordination email. Might you introduce me
there?

I now think that this document should be considered a beginner document,
and be aimed towards first-time volunteers who want to participate in HOT
projects. Perhaps there should be a section on ID as well as the material
on JOSM?

If there is agreement that such a document would be helpful, I could edit
it in the style of the existing LearnOSM Google
Docs<https://github.com/hotosm/learnosm/wiki/English-Learning-Guides>,
and then make it available for review by others.

Dave

 *From:* Severin Menard <severin.menard at gmail.com>
*Sent:* Thursday, February 20, 2014 6:55 AM
*To:* David Litke <dwlitke at comcast.net>
*Cc:* Heather <hmilton at gmail.com>
*Subject:* Re: [CrisisMappers] Mapping South Sudan on OSM

 Hi David,




On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 6:34 PM, David Litke <dwlitke at comcast.net> wrote:

>   Severin,
>
> I wanted to follow up on your thought that our Resources Doc could be used
> as a chapter in LearnOSM - I would be happy to do this if it would be
> useful. I am not sure if it belongs in the Beginner section or the
> Intermediate Section. The title of the chapter could be something like
> "Step-by-Step Guide for using JOSM with the Task Manager".
>
I really think it would be useful. I still have to document good editings
with a few screeenshots as requested in the Reviiew document #1
Hmm I think the Intermediate section does not exist anymore, the frame has
been modified recently and after a Beginner section, is organized by
thematics

>
> But before I put time into this, is approval of some sort needed from the
> community?
>
Yes there is a LearnOSM coord mail I think; I can introduce there if you
want.

>
> I see there is a document about "Contributing to LearnOSM<https://github.com/hotosm/learnosm/blob/gh-pages/CONTRIBUTING.md>".
> It says that chapters in the Intermediate Section are managed as Google
> Docs - this would be very easy to do. On the other hand this document talks
> about the need to install Ruby and a local webserver before any work can be
> done? This would be much more work for me.
>
This would be easy to do indeed. But (IMHO) unfortunately everything has
been moved by the LearnOSM team on github. But I think we can propose the
document is first made on Google or another editor, cause github and
markdown are not easy at all.

>
> Dave
>
>
>  *From:* Severin MENARD <severin.menard at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 06, 2014 3:58 AM
> *To:* Heather <hmilton at gmail.com>
>  *Cc:* David Litke <dwlitke at comcast.net>
> *Subject:* Re: [CrisisMappers] Mapping South Sudan on OSM
>
>   Hi,
>
> This is interesting indeed and cold even be a chapter in LearnOSM
> dedicated for people mapping only through the Taking Manager. I added some
> tips for mapping, checklist for validation (you can check the doc history
> to see my changes).
>
> Otherwise, better if nobody Validate the tiles to make them green as
> unfortuantely it cannot be reverted - and many times as unfinished tiles
> have been validated, we need to ask Pierre Giraud to flush this validation
> step to get access back to the validated tiles. It should be solve soon
> with the new TM version
>
>
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