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

Tue Mar 25 04:44:16 UTC 2014

Great feedback!

They are very detailed & long, but +1 to add those resources to LearnOSM.
(as "Quick Start Guide" or "Cheat Sheet" comes to my mind)
At first, make a link to those docs would be an easy modification?

And what about to add FAQ for beginners section to LearnOSM?
e.g. from my training experience.
 * How detailed should I tag? Too much information!
 * I took mistake edit/deletion/modification! What should I do?
 * Is there any meanings to the direction of Way object?
 * What is "good changeset comment"? Any samples?
 * What is "permitted resources"? Where could we check them out?
 * Could OSM represent any past object? (Currently, maybe No. OHM or other
repository could be)

Cheers.

2014-03-24 22:23 GMT+09:00 Severin Menard <severin.menard at gmail.com>:

> 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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