Hi,
First: Thanks for your quick and elaborate response.
Contrary to what I wrote before, the road I meant didnt disappear, it was downgraded to a path and
the rest left as a secondary. But this still explaines one of the problems with imports:
You can do them automatically (using a separate account as it falls under the mechanical edit policy
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edit_Policy - at least thats how I understood it),
but what do you do with the roads/rivers/places that are already there?
Especially if, like in this case, the data to be imported is from 2009 (at leastthats what the
source tag says) and the Bing pictures are from 2003 (according to the bing aerial image analyzer).
Many helpers like myself have used those images to trace various things and will continue to do so;
so there could be discrepancies.
Can we limit this task to "well-seasoned mappers". Or do we have enough people willing and able to
get the job done using some kind of private task manager not open to the general public?
Whatever may happen, I am suer we can all agree that we should take all the data, help and people to
help we can get.
Regards,
Simeon
Am 13.06.2013 13:26, schrieb Ben Abelshausen:
Hi,
This import was started as part of the EUROSHA project for the Central African Republic and after
the rebellion. The data being imported is served with the task, a new feature for the tasking
manager that we developed while in Cameroon. The data of the WRI can be served with the task as a
mapping aid.
This is for now, an experiment but is meant to be executed I guess. I'm sure that Severin Menard,
the lead for HOT on this project, can also tell you something more about this.
As far as I know there is some confusion about this task, a few of the blocking
issues:
- Do we need to use a seperate import account? (the import list is not very
responsive)
- Is the WRI data suited for this? Maybe partly using the data is something we
can do.
- This task is meant for well-seasoned mappers, is this something we can expect?
This is my view on this little project and it's a bit sad to have all this data for a mostly
completely unmapped and from a humanitarian perspective very difficult country and not use it. I
think we should take every chance we get to improve the map for the CAR.
If you have some suggestions on this, your thoughts are very very welcome on
how to do this better.
Met vriendelijke groeten,
Best regards,
Ben Abelshausen
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On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Simeon <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi all,
Does anyone know if the WRI import already started?
There is a wiki page:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import_CAR_WRI_Data
and a task:
http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/219.
Although the task says that its only a test, someone started to import
roads around N'Dele:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=8.39936&lon=20.69708&zoom=15&layers=M
The track there appears on my tiles as a teriary road, but in the dataset
there is nothing
left but a new track with access=no. For me thats a strange combination,
but the wiki pages
says so.
>From tha satelite image, this road is bigger than a track and comtinues
further than the import.
I dont want to step on anyones toes, its just that I am confused why some
roads disappeared
and that I havent heard anything about this import.
Regards,
Theodin
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