[talk-ph] OSM Project NOAH edits

[Totor]

Hi all,

Great that we will have more mappers... 

I finally found some time to analyse the changesets of the edits done in Cebu by Arkigat.
Here are the errors I noticed:
1. Several buildings where traced over already existing buildings (probably just as exercise), creating duplicate buildings on top of each other.
2. Several areas where traced as buildings instead of using a correct tag like amenity/landuse... Smaller buildings or POI's where already there most of the time and the traced areas were very approximative.
3. Name tags were also copied from existing poi's or buildings, but lacked capitalisation

Most of this looked like just reproducing already existing elements just to try out how it works.
Is there a sandbox for iD for these kind of edits ? (I couldn't find the info in the wiki [1] )

I also was unable to contact Arkigat. 
If a test account is made for a workshop, somebody should really monitor it...

Because of all the above, the only thing I could do (after having reviewed the edits one by one), was to revert them (except one that seemed useful)
I really hope the next attempt will be more productive...

Cheers,

Totor

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Sandbox_for_editing


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On Tue, 10/14/14, maning sambale  wrote:

 Subject: [talk-ph] OSM Project NOAH edits
 To: "osm-ph" , "Jen Alconis" , "Jen Alconis" 
 Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2014, 6:38 PM
 
 As some of you have noticed, we are
 getting a lot of new edits (yay!)
 with a changeset comment #noah.  This is part of  Project 
 NOAH's  campaign to improve exposure data all over the 
 country for DRR. AFAIK,  they are running several workshops 
 to universities, LGUs and  regional  agencies all over the country.
 
 As some of you have also noticed, along with more mappers,
 newbie  errors can happen.
 This is always the case for new mappers (all of us went to
 this stage).
 
 I had a brief discussion with the NOAH team today and I
 proposed to  have a discussion with them to look into ways 
 to minimize editing errors.
 
 If you have seen such cases, let's document it in this
 thread so that  we can help NOAH's training team as they 
 continue to encourage editing in OSM.  Once we have collated 
 this common errors we can then discuss this with Project NOAH.
 
 -- 
 cheers,
 maning
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