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

[Confidence Kpodo]

Dear Enock,

Thank you for sharing your concerns, very much appreciated.

These issues raised were also noticed during the OSM Ghana/YouthMappers
February Mapathon challenge and I am working to address it as YouthMappers
as part of the OpenStreetMap community stands to ensure high quality edits
into OpenStreetMap from her members.

I have however been in conversation with Mawutor of OSM Ghana, to table a
discussion and training session on good practices, soon with the chapters
during a suitable time to address these pertinent issues raised.

I also do hope once a date is agreed on, you would be available to share
your skills with us.

I look forward to contacting you soon, and thank you once again.

Thank you.

Sincerly,

On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 9:51 PM Enock Seth Nyamador <open at enockseth.co>
wrote:

> 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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Confidence Kpodo
Regional Ambassador
YouthMappers
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