[Talk-GB] Mapbox' mapping activity

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Sep 20, 2021, 20:42 by me-osm-talk-gb at keepawayfromfire.co.uk:

> On Thu, 2021-09-16 at 19:55 +0100, Brian Prangle wrote:
>
>> Why don't you recruit mappers for this
>> activity from the UK? The local chapter OSMUK operates a talent pool
>> <https://osmuk.org/professional-services/> for mappers who are
>> seeking
>> paid
>> work. You'd get a much higher quality input, have the ability to
>> ground
>> truth things  and not piss off the OSM UK community so much. Or just
>> publish a list of errors as you see them by county and let the local
>> community clear things up?
>>
>
> +1 on this. Employing people from the local community, and making the
> QA tools public for everyone to improve OSM seem like reasonable things
> to me.
>
It would make sense.

But it would be hard to find people from UK willing to work for what Mapbox
pays in Belarus.

And even if someone would find willing people it would be 
likely below minimum wage in UK.

Though it does mean that training of Mapbox employees will need to be longer,
before they will start mapping.
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