Dear Youth Mappers at Panama University,

recently, a number of complaints have been raised against your work in OpenStreetMap. Here are some of them:

https://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussion-comments?uid=12196736 https://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussion-comments?uid=4366434 https://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussion-comments?uid=4366436 https://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussion-comments?uid=4928257

We’re always happy if new poeple join OSM, but if you train students to contribute to OSM, you have a responsibility to monitor the quality and ensure that if other mappers raise complaints, these complaints are heard and acted upon.

In your future work in OSM, please observe the organised editing guidelines outlined here:

https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Organised_Editing_Guidelines

The most important bit here is that every single member of your team is recognizable as being in our team (e.g. by writing something on the user profile page) and that the team leadership is reachable for us.

The guidelines also require that you document your mapping efforts. One user has done this for you in his diary entry:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mariotomo/diary/395025

But this is not a job that the community should be doing for you - it is you whou should be providing this documentation.

Please, in your future OSM projects, ensure that students receive proper training and follow the organised editing guidelines.

It is not a big deal if someone makes a mistake - we all make mistakes. But, since you are introducing new people to OSM every year, you really need to make it a part of that introduction to explain to students that they need to work together with the existing OSM community, and that they don’t exist in an empty space.

I am writing this as a block message to all accounts that are currently involved hoping that it finally reaches someone who is responsible, as the individual accounts do not list a contact address, have not reacted to changeset comments, and emails from OSM mappers to info@youthmappers.org have been without response.

Please ignore this message and accept my apologies if you are not involved with the group.

Thank you for your understanding Frederik Ramm OSMF Data Workin Group Ticket#2020120710000024