John and Susan I love this idea. The Missing Maps projects are generally really good for new mappers. We could set up a couple of tasks outside a mapathon just for this purpose.
Would you once a list of people you can contact in the task instructions. These folks will also be the ones responsible for being the validates and Mentors On Sat, Jun 27, 2015, 9:21 PM Suzan Reed <[email protected]> wrote: > John mentors me, and it's been extremely valuable to have him gently > mentioning problems. > > Having a list of projects for new people where they can get some mentoring > as they learn to map would be exellent. Being isolated isn't easy. Being on > a team and working with other mappers encourages us to do more mapping, and > it's more interesting and dare I say, fun. > > Cheers, > Suzan > > > On Jun 27, 2015, at 6:11 PM, john whelan wrote: > > I normally keep an eye on about three or four projects and validate any > tiles that get marked done on those projects usually within a day or so and > often within an hour or two. > > Working like this I find I can gently mention problems to newcomers and > strangely enough the projects get finished off. > > Could some one think of a way to have a list of projects that are > validated in this way that newcomers can find easily so they can get a bit > of support and don't feel too isolated. It would need commitment from > someone to validate a project rather than the project manager adding it to > the list. > > Yes I understand that Maperthons are wonderful and looking over someone's > shoulder is useful but there are people who find getting to Maperthons not > so convenient and it would be nice to cater to them. > > Thanks John > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >
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