Hi,
The Belgian National Crisis Centre – a Corporate Member of OSM.be - has been asking for help with data quality issues for a while. This has been going well, but for larger challenges, it takes a lot of time. So OSM.be has decided to give out volunteer fees for people who work on these tasks!
Currently, we would like to get help on the task for schools and the one for places of worship. I implore you to read the instructions properly, and keep the full text open while you map. Within MapRoulette, scroll to see the text, though the allotted space is quite small.
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Places of worship: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/help-us-identify-significant-places-of-worship/137746
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Schools: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/still-missing-1788-schools-in-belgium/128320
How does it work?
Places of worship seems to be the easier task. For every 45 tasks you complete, we consider it a half day of volunteering (€21 tax free). Schools are more challenging, there you only need to complete 16 tasks for it to be considered half a day. If you want to specialize in the hardest tasks, we can work something out together.
Don’t just start doing the work if you want the volunteer fee. First, send an email to board@osm.be with your name, address and bank account number. You need to live in Belgium (more info here in NL, FR, DE). If you don’t have previous experience with the task, we’ll ask you to fix 10 tasks and review before we move forward. After that, just keep us generally informed about your work. We will use MapRoulette to track progress. If we notice you do not read the instructions, your contributions may be disqualified.
It’s not about marking as many as possible tasks as Fixed. Quality always comes first. Useful feedback when marking as Can’t Complete also counts. Do use the MapRoulette “Request review” function whenever you would like a second pair of eyes on your solution. We do hope you don’t need reviews all the time though
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General questions go here, task specific questions in the Community posts linked above.