OpenStreetMap
Through using HOT Tasking Manager, I’ve noticed that I am currently only able to help with their beginner tasks. Once I have made enough beginner edits, that is when I will be able to move on to more challenging (i.e. intermediate) projects. At the moment I am enjoying the fact that I’m helping map areas in Tajikistan, and I completed 2 squares so far. I will count each square that I complete as a separate project, as I could end up mapping a whole project over the course of the year and only be able to say that I worked on 1 project. Once I get closer to becoming an intermediate mapper - I have to upload 250 edits, and I’ve done around 75 so far, so probably when I uploaded 200+ edits - I’ll study about what makes intermediate tasks more of a challenge over beginner tasks.
Discussion
Comment from russdeffner on 27 September 2019 at 17:03
Welcome Uyan, thank you for your contribution. Just a prelude to intermediate mapping, it is up to the project manager to decide the difficulty. However, they can also set a project as intermediate or advanced difficulty, but not make the restriction (i.e. bit of a warning to new mappers vs. too difficult).
Some things that I look at are imagery - if it is offset, poor resolution or a need to compare two (or more) imagery sources - that I consider a bit beyond a new mapper. Very dense buildings - often with very dense buildings and/or poor resolution it is difficult for even experienced mappers to determine where one building ends and another begins. Multiple features - this one often happens even in beginner projects, but is a cue to me to make a project intermediate or advanced as it’s just more difficult if you have to be looking for more than one thing in a task.
This isn’t an exhaustive list of course, there may be other factors the project creator is looking at when determining the difficulty level.
Happy Mapping, we’ll see you soon on the more difficult projects!
=Russ
Russell Deffner
Russell.Deffner@hotosm.org