[Talk-gh] Some YouthMappers organised mapping activities in Ghana; more work for the few ?

[Enock Seth Nyamador]

Hi,

It is great and nice to see OpenStreetMap community in Ghana growing 
over the years, especially among students thanks to the YouthMappers 
associations.

We all make mistakes and OSM itself is very forgiving in most cases but 
some of these mistakes I believe can and should be avoided.

The issue is that only few people are doing the *dirty* job of cleaning 
and fixing things; it takes time.

I am not aware of any data source in country that can be compared to 
what we have in OSM (please share), thanks to so many hardworking and 
dedicated volunteers over the years.

Having been around OSM in Ghana for sometime, some of us have seen 
local/remote issues from both individuals and corporate *organised 
mapping activities* that we believe should not happen.

In this mail, I echo briefly those from some YouthMappers mapping 
activities, over the years myself and other volunteers have tried to 
fix/clean issues from YouthMappers organised activities and still 
cleaning, also drawing attention of individual mappers and association 
leaders on Good practices[1], use of real changeset comments that are 
not only ###hashtags that does not describe which change have been made, 
knowing well that time spent complaining could be used to fix/help 
mappers responsible instead but not many have resulted in much change.

In order for us to have the map, mappers, data and community we desire 
to make a better OpenStreetMap in Ghana, we all need to treat this only 
OSM with much care whilst learning from each other too. There are some 
recent questionable contributions around[2] and others that have 
motivated this mail (Please don't try to delete them//now/, /these 
recent ones might lead to more issues)

PS: Confidence in cc, as the YouthMappers regional ambassador in 
Ghana[1], I humbly request you can communicate this better to all 
YouthMappers associations and that we all should follow good practices.

1. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_practice
2. https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/6.3296/-0.5809
3. https://www.youthmappers.org/regional-ambassadors

-- 
Best,
-Enock
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