[Talk-ca] BC2020i Mapathon Event

[Jonathan Brown]

These tips are much appreciated. My apologies for the misinformation about your involvement with the folks at the Taskar Centre. We have the call out for local OSM Task Manager volunteers and are hoping to recruit them asap. Fleming College has an excellent GIS program as does Trent University. We are also hoping for support from the Toronto OSM folks. 

Jonathan 
From: Clifford Snow
Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2018 11:52 AM
To: Jonathan Brown
Cc: James; Rob Halko; Brock Baker <brock_baker at kprdsb.ca>; sarah.rice at durham.ca; Talk-CA OpenStreetMap
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020i Mapathon Event


 
one impotant take away from past experiences is to tell them not to map the same element twice. For example, someone else maps it first, dont add it on top as well(duplicate item mapping)

Using a Tasking Manager solve most of the duplicate editing issues. The TM breaks the the area into grids or a polygon shape you provide. Each mapper checks out a section which is then locked to prevent others from editing at the same time. You do need to remind people that the lock expires after 2 hours. All they need to do is exit from the task then reselect it to restart the timer.

Clifford 




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