Hi, I just mapped a couple of buildings for a task. I just wanted to know if I’m on the right track. I’ve never used OpenStreepMap before so help me out.
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Hello & welcome to OSM!
You’ve unfortunately picked just about one of the most difficult places in which to start mapping - a heavily built up urban area with badly aligned imagery! (by that I mean that the mapped roads, don’t match up with the roads shown on the images)
As to you edits themselves.
Both buildings that you’ve mapped are lopsided, with at least one angled wall. To avoid this, when you’ve finished mapping a building (or anything else square / rectangular) hit your “Q” key, which will straighten it out.
In addition to the automatic HOT comment, please also add an actual description of what you have done. Simply “Added buildings” is fine, although you can be as descriptive as you wish!
Edits are at Changesets by shaon128 | OpenStreetMap if anybody else would like to comment?
Have fun mapping!
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Thank you so much. Can you suggest some easier tasks for me? I guess I’ll have to map just buildings mostly for now.
Don’t use HOT until you have a lot more experience with mapping! (& this isn’t picking on you - HOT is not very user friendly 
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Have a look around your local area & see what needs mapping (unless that city was local to you?)
Yes, buildings are good, but other simple things are tags for various shops. Priority there would probably be medical facilities (hospitals, doctors, pharmacies), food, fuel etc.
Just think about what you’d need to find if you were a stranger visiting your area?
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Another one I just thought of.
Are all the streets in your area mapped, & are they all named?
Hi @shaon128 I’m not currently in a position to comment on your HOT mapping, but it sounds like you’ve had some useful feedback here.
The whole task itself won’t get validated until a mapper submits it as completed=yes. Until then, it will remain available for mapping.
The general OSM advice from @Fizzie-DWG is good in that there is far more to OSM than HOT and certainly the imagery we get to work with can be very unfriendly. It can take a while to understand that you might be looking at the side of a building, shadows or multiple small block that are on the roof of a much bigger building.
For easier HOT projects that tend to be good for beginners, I would look at Mozambique projects. Imagery tends to be good, but understanding shadows may be necessary. If you feel overwhelmed by difficulty, upload any work you are happy with, submit complete yes or no (if there is more to do) as appropriate, and try a different project.
If the mapping is easy for you, but the volume seems like a lot of work, split the task at the bottom of the completion tab, then star on one of the new smaller tasks.
You can ask questions on hotosm.slack.com too, most of us have the same usernames as HOT and OSM.
If the timing works for you, the London Missing Maps online sessions early in each month are setup for new mappers using iD or JOSM. The next one is 7 April
@Adrian_Shobrooke Tysm. I’m working on a Mozambique project now and I’m finding it much easier as the buildings are quite sparsely located. I tried to join the hot slack but it seems like I need an email account with the hot domain.
I haven’t really checked my area in osm.
You shouldn’t need a hot domain email to join the slack channel.
It can be easy to miss the round building in some imagery. I’ll look out for some of your work in a few days.
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Very cool.
I got an invite link after submitting the google form. I’ve been trying to join using my gmail account but can’t.
I don’t recall a Google form from Slack, maybe things have changed.
Hi, I’ve left some specific comments in the task for you. https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/46008/tasks?search=24
You don’t have to map the task to look at the comments, just click on the three small lines menu to see the task history. However, that task does need completing, so maybe you can do that?
