[Talk-ht] Need Help Managing Mapping Requests

[Mikel Maron]

All

We lack a single clear place where mappers can come to find what kind of tasks are most urgently needed, 
who else is working on these tasks, the status of the task, and who to notify if something is completed.

Can someone stand up to take on the role of organizing and maintaining this?

Currently, elements of this are spread throughout the Haiti WikiProject pages. Mea culpa, I contributed to this
state of affairs as well.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/Mapping_Coordination#What_needs_to_be_mapped.3F
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/Tasks_and_Ideas#Mapping_Tasks

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/Mapping_Coordination#Requests_from_Responders
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/Status
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/News

We really need someone to commit to organizing these pages into a single clear space on the wiki, and monitoring how things progress.
If requests are found on crisismappers list, direct emails, or in analysis of the map, they'd need to add that to the wiki.
Would be helpful to be in touch with organizers at various crisiscamps this weekend, to coordinate work.

In this role, if this person became occupied with other work, they'd need to let us know here on talk-ht so someone else could take over.

Essentially, this needs to work something like an informal ticketing system. I believe this could be managed in the wiki
for the time being, and lessons from the crisis applied for better systems in future responses.

How does this sound? Anyone ready to take on this role?

Mikel

== Mikel Maron ==
http://mapkibera.org/
+254 (0) 724899738
mikel at osmfoundation.org
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