RAytoun
commented
7 years ago Having this kind of feedback during an activation would give a head start for more experienced mappers to see which tiles have been worked on by newbies that may need amending as they map.
When I validate a square I send feedback regarding the persons that added specific features and not just the person that completed the tile. I throw a lassoo select covering the whole tile and get a list of mappers that completed each feature. From that I can ascertain the percentage of work each did on the tile and calling up the history of certain added features confirms who worked on it. Sometimes this can be a lot of work so if many mappers worked on a single tile. I then tend to concentrate on the more experienced mappers work to see whether that mapper has been correcting features added by others and what those errors may have been.
As you will see the list of people that were the last one to modify a feature
can be a lot less than the number of people that worked on that tile
So finding and assessing the work of newbies can be quite a task when they do not complete a tile and can often be missed as it has already been amended.
The 'buildings only' tasks for newbies does make it easier to see their errors as more experienced mappers tend not to do these tasks and thus the work does not get amended in the process of completing the tile.
With a 'brand new' contributor, give them the opportunity, or flag in some other way, so that a validator can check on progress before a whole square is completed. As many, many people never actually complete a square, this type of mechanism is needed for them to receive feedback even though they are not confident enough to mark a square as complete.