It appears that the Leer-Mayendit primary road in the north portion of the project is under construction in this imagery?
Is it flooded? There appears to be quite a bit of water in the video. Any tag requirements? Regards, Emmor On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 7:12 AM, Kretzer <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually, I was considering mapping all the fences as well, because the > patterns are really beautiful ... > > Right now I took a brave (or stupid?) decision to change some long > stretches from highway to "waterway=ditch". One was even tagged as " > motorway_link" > <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dmotorway_link> . > With the imagery it is often quite hard to tell the difference bewteen > paths or raods and ditches, but it seems to make more sense that there are > many drainage ditches in those wetlands. And the end is a giveaway: roads > normally don't end in rivers .... > http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/8.1729/29.9339&layers=H > I wasn't sure about the middle structure though, this could be path or > ditch. maybe there are path running along such ditches. > What do you think? Or doesn't it matter at all, as no humanitarian units > would need this information for finding the people? (At least it does make > sense to remove the motorway, I guess ...) > > Also I found this video that shows some of the area: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jbDQNj6X_I - it does look quite wet > there, but of course this will depend on the season. > > *Gesendet:* Freitag, 06. März 2015 um 12:52 Uhr > *Von:* "Severin Menard" <[email protected]> > *An:* "Tom Taylor" <[email protected]> > *Cc:* Kretzer <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" < > [email protected]> > *Betreff:* Re: [HOT] #923 - Mayendit, South Sudan - buildings and roads > Hello, > > On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 12:42 AM, Tom Taylor <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> The larger round huts are dwellings, the smaller ones are storage. The >> linear items around the buildings and huts are walls (barrier=wall). > > In South Sudan, actually it is generally fences and not walls. Check on these > pics > <https://www.google.com/search?q=mayendit&client=ubuntu&hs=nHs&channel=fs&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=Bo75VN6AGoHnUPrRgZAH&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAw#channel=fs&tbs=itp:photo&tbm=isch&q=village+south+sudan+trip> > > >> The buildings and huts should be labelled building=yes. >> >> >> On 05/03/2015 7:00 PM, Kretzer wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> I have some questions about this new project: >>> In the western part there are quite unusual structures, there are many >>> buildings >>> stretched in long lines. Like here: >>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/8.1325/29.9831&layers=H >>> I started mapping these as residential areas, unless there were only one >>> or two >>> single buildings - would you do that? Or is it better to just map the >>> buildings? >>> I can't even be sure there buildings are really used for permanent >>> living, just >>> assumed that. Maybe there is someone with mor knowledge of the area? >>> I'm also curious what the many round strucures in the open area are. >>> They could >>> well be man-made, maybe something like haystacks (or whatever material >>> would be >>> collected there). >>> Also I am unsure about the roads. There is one tagged as main road >>> that's not >>> even visible on the imagery. I guess that doesn't make sense >>> (particularly as >>> the other main road can clearly be seen as something like that), but >>> didn't dare >>> to touch the top-level structures. >>> Thanks, and sorry again if I am asking in the wrong place! >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > >
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