FYI, I came recently across many similar changesets recently in the north where hundreds of farming huts are being added as building=yes, some of them wrongly mapped with outdated Bing imagery.
#tm-project-6041 #EliminateMalaria #Thailand #MissingMaps #ThailandNMCP
After getting in touch with the user (marco443 | OpenStreetMap ) initially through changesets comments, and realizing he’s mapping from France, I asked him (translated from French):
His answer was:
Update: This “project” is actually coming from HOT, see https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/6041
The public page mentions “Please only map this task as part of the Thailand NMCP training. All validators welcome”
However, the “who can map” section says “All users”
This explains:
- tags are coming from the HOT page instructions
- mappers are random volunteers around the world who want to “do good”
- mappers do not know each other and simply follow basic instructions (e.g. add a maximum of buildings in this bounding box using any imagery)
To avoid further confusion/conflicts, I have contacted the organizer of the HOT campaigns in Thailand https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/avward
and requested that for all existing and future campaigns:
- a URL to the HOT campaign be included in the changeset comment
- “Who can map” section be updated with the correct target group (if any)
- reference to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Thailand is included in the guidelines section
I will update the thread once I hear from him.