There are precious few photos in Wikimedia Commons showing forest roads and hamlets in West Africa. I started to collect those I could localize and associate with a tag. Only primary roads so far. Some from DRC.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Rwst/Commons_photos_roads_hamlets_w-africa On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Sander Deryckere <[email protected]> wrote: > Some pictures on the Africa highways wiki page wouldn't hurt either. > > Quite often, a road can look too narrow to be classified as "unclassified", > so people put "path" on it. But that's in a lot of cases because the treetop > makes it seem narrow, but at the bottom, it's wide enough for vehicles to > pass. > > 2014-09-10 9:21 GMT+02:00 Nick Allen <[email protected]>: >> >> Blake, >> >> I'm hoping you can come up with a way of sharing the screenshots on these >> subjects. As well as the wiki or LearnOSM article you develop, the basic >> screenshots could be of enormous help for those who produce items on >> twitter, facebook, press articles, slideshows for presentations etc.. >> >> Personally I'm currently attempting to work on a series of slides used >> when delivering training at events, and I like to include screenshots from >> iD & JOSM and in each I like to have the scale visible. >> >> There are many others on this mailing list with more experience on the >> subject of sharing the information, but this could include a shared folder >> in GoogleDrive, or Dropbox. >> >> Regards >> >> Nick >> (Tallguy) >> >> >> On 10/09/14 02:32, Blake Girardot wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> You might have read in a few emails I was hoping to put up some satellite >> imagery that shows things we often map in W. Africa. >> >> Originally and still mainly, I wanted some examples of schools and roads >> of different types. >> >> I am open to any suggestions for things to include and if you find any >> good examples with MapBox imagery please send them my way. >> >> Or if you find something that you don't know what it is, please share it >> here and we'll get it identified. >> >> For users of iD, just center on the thing in question and then copy/past >> the url from your web browser into an email. >> >> JOSM users can click in the lower left corner of their window and a >> location box will pop up, you can just copy/paste the url from that box into >> an email. >> >> Cheers, >> Blake >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Nick >> >> Volunteer 'Tallguy' for >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team >> >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Tallguy >> >> Treasurer, website & Bonus Ball admin for >> http://www.6thswanleyscouts.org.uk/ ([email protected]) >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
