[talk-ph] Feb 16 Mindanao Mapping Party

[Erwin Olario]

Celina, your initiatives are laudable. The organized editing guidelines
adopted by the OSMF was based on feedback and inputs from individuals and
groups from various communities around the globe, borne out of their own
experience with previous directed editing efforts, and the call for
prudent approaches towards the challenge of improving OSM data.

For anyone else who might be curious, the OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF)
defines organized editing as "... any edits that involve more than one
person and can be grouped under one or more sizeable, substantial,
coordinated editing initiatives." If there are discussions about any
exception relating to any effort, the same OSMF guidelines require such
discussions to be open, public, and archived.

The only special case to the guideline are response activities related to
impending or on-going emergencies, where no advance discussion is possible.
Even in such cases, they are not exempted, but are required to comply as
soon as is practical.

The only way any community can grow is to embrace newcomers. There are no
ways around that. The guidelines ensure that preparations are made to
teach, coach, support new editors, promote best practices, and avoid
beginners' errors like this from happening in the first place:

[image: image.png]

Should that happen, as they often will, the post-clean-up and validation
process plans would be able address them, allowing the community to have
reasonable expectations about when the validation can happen. Hopefully,
such validation is planned to happen sooner, rather than letting suspicious
edits remain in the database for months or years after.

The public also benefits from the provisions of the guideline, with more
information about the individuals, directors, and collaborators involved in
the project, providing a better understanding of who they are, and what
their goals are.

We're looking forward to the information you're going to provide in your
project's OSM wiki page.

/erwin

On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 6:43 PM maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I’ve had discussions with OSMF and HOT the guidelines don’t really apply
>> to volunteer mapping parties
>>
>
> This is great information. May we get a public record of this discussion?
> I was not personally aware of exemptions in the guidelines provided by the
> OSMF:
>
> https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/w/images/6/62/Organised_Editing_Guidelines.pdf
>
>
>> This kicks off a four month first phase initiative as we continue field
>> work and OSM mapping workshops, map validation and community building
>> across 60 local municipalities and NGOs in Mindanao.
>>
>
> The above statements does not add up to me based on the previous statement
> that this is a volunteer effort though.
>
>
>> For the validation, we have a support group to help ensure new mappers
>> have a positive experience and aren’t intimidated by other mapper’s
>> comments. They will tag their edits as #newbie. Local Youthmappers
>> chapters, George Washington University Humanitarianian Mapping Society, and
>> HOT will support the validation of their edits and provide community and
>> technical support.
>>
>
> Looking forward to the validation process!
>
> cheers,
> maning
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/Erwin Olario

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