[Talk-us] Invitation to participate in an experiment on the use of artificial intelligence results for humanitarian mapping and the creation of OSM

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

(cross-posting to talk-us and talk-gb since the original posting was 
made on both these lists separately, differing only in the sentence 
explaining that there are many mapathons in $COUNTRYNAME)

On 3/10/22 21:55, r.stampach at centrum.cz wrote:
> In collaboration with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (one of the founders of the Missing Maps project) we are organizing an experiment to determine how AI will affect the mapping results when building and roads data prepared by artificial intelligence algorithms are used and we are looking for volunteer mappers.

If this experiment is run in a "dry dock" without uploading data to OSM 
then of course you can do what you want.

If you plan to upload data to OSM in the course of the experiment, this 
is an organised editing activity which is governed by our organised 
editing guidelines.

Specifically, these would require documenting and discussing your 
project in the community before you start. We would be interested in, 
among other things, in your QA process - how will you ensure that you're 
not uploading data that has been mis-detected by AI, or that any newbies 
you recruit get the proper training and that the organisers arrange 
validation on the work done by inexperienced people.

Please take this seriously. Specifically, do NOT assume that just 
because you are "in collaboration with HOT" they will free you from 
these duties.

A research project violating the OSM community's rules would gravely 
damage the reputation of your university department.

> - We need participants – volunteers – for the experiment. The more, the better.

Be aware that more participants WILL mean more work for you (because you 
have to instruct them and you have to do validation/QA on their 
contributions). This is not something that is done with a half-hour 
training screenshare, it will require many, many hours after the event.

Bye
Frederik

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