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

[Enock Seth Nyamador]

Hi Confidence,

I am happy to speak/demo/share these issues to  your students and all 
interest with possible solutions/fixes in an online session soonest.

Best,
Enock

On 28.06.22 15:26, Confidence Kpodo wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
>
> -- 
>
>
> _____________________
>
> Confidence Kpodo
> Regional Ambassador
> YouthMappers
>
>
-- 
Best,
-Enock
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