[Osmf-talk] Africa as a training ground was RE: google Open Buildings usage request

[Juan Jose Iglesias]

I fully agree, also HOT projects should NOT start by the request of just one member of the community involved, several projects are started in that way without even knowledge or agreement of the involved locals.

BsRgds

JJ

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From: Frederik Ramm [mailto:frederik at remote.org] 
Sent: Sunday, August 1, 2021 7:00 AM
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Subject: Re: [Osmf-talk] Africa as a training ground was RE: google Open Buildings usage request

Hi,

On 8/1/21 08:12, dfjkman at gmail.com wrote:
> One of the problems is the number of projects on the go at any one 
> time, Africa has more HOT projects on the go than the rest of the 
> world put together, many of them overlap and many of them die a 
> natural death without ever being validated leaving a great deal of mess behind.

Perhaps we should help improve the quality of these projects by ensuring a more stringent documentation and prior discussion.

The organised editing guidelines already require that projects be presented to, and discussed with, the community before they start; a requirement that HOT has been somewhat cavalier with by documenting mainly "blanket projects" in https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Organised_Editing/Activities/Humanitarian_OpenStreetMap_Team
(compare the number of things documented there with the number of projects in the tasking manager).

The organised editing guidelines have a couple more requirements, one of which is that projects should be planned such that no mess is left behind (the documentation should contain "plans for a “post-event clean up” to validate edits, especially if the activity introduces new contributors to OpenStreetMap").

If it can be shown that HOT projects are regularly falling foul of the organised editing guidelines, then HOT should be asked to take remedial action (including cleanup of all the past activities), and if that does not help, HOT should be barred from conducting any further organised editing.

Bye
Frederik

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