Hello, 2012/5/30 Stéphane Henriod <[email protected]>
> > - During the exercise came some questions about the typologies of > roads (residential vs. tracks vs. path...). During a real emergency we > would probably want to avoid wasting too much time on explaining to newbies > (like me) what tag relates to what real-world-feature (and what it looks > like on the satellite imagery). We also want to minimize the amount of work > for those who will validate. Ideally, someone with field knowledge of the > area to map (or with knowledge of a similar area) should develop a "quick > illustrated typology". This would take the form of a simple table showing: > > > - The *key = tag* > - An example of what such a feature looks like on the satellite > imagery (because a "residential street" will not look the same in a > refugee > camp in Eastern Africa, in downtown Miami or in a rural area of > Afghanistan) > - A picture of such a feature in the real world > > One could develop a wiki page (like this one for > example<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway>) > clearly showing what features need to be mapped and how the need to be > mapped and tagged, for a specific contect (humanitarian help) in a specific > location (Eastern Africa in our case). > I would really second this as I also struggled a bit with the classification. Usually I check what's already there but when I started with camp Ifo there wasn't much available to look at. Michael
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