John is right, if the area is not too large, a HOT task would be useful for validation. Also, each building needs to have a source tag to show where the data comes from. Do you have additional information about the names/function of these buildings and the names of the corresponding villages?
Best regards Henning (hebolz) > Am 08.10.2015 um 21:24 schrieb john whelan <[email protected]>: > > A suggestion only would be to set up a set of tiles for this area as a HOT > task, mark all the tiles as done but leave them open for people to validate > with JOSM. It would probably clean up a lot of existing OSM mapping in the > area and give you a higher quality map at the finish. > > The suggestion would be more to verify existing mapping and catch the glaring > errors not to map bits that haven't been mapped already. If its done this > way it will probably be a first for HOT but the validation is much faster > than new mapping. > > It could also be done by loading up the entire area into JOSM hopefully its > not too big by one person and validating it that way which is an existing > technique so not so contentious. > > Cheerio John > > Cheerio John > >> On 8 October 2015 at 14:29, Lauren Jacobson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I want to introduce myself and propose a new import in northern Zambia to >> the mailing list, and open up it up for feedback. My name is Lauren Jacobson >> and I am a Developer at Development Seed in Washington, DC. We have floated >> this out over the OSM Imports and OSM Talk-Africa listserv, but wanted to >> open the conversation to the HOT community. >> >> Over the past couple of years, Akros Global Health collected the locations >> of over 268,000 buildings in Zambia through their mSpray indoor malaria >> prevention program. We at Development Seed have been working with Akros and >> USAID to process the data, and prepare it for import into OSM. This import >> will add a significant amount of data to OSM in northern Zambia. >> >> We've done the initial work to prep the data, check with existing data in >> OSM, and outline our workflow for how we'll conduct the import. Until now >> we've been working with the small group of collaborators at Akros, USAID, >> Ona, and Development Seed. We want circulate the proposal and plan to get >> additional feedback before we conduct the import. >> >> Import Plan >> >> The plan is to have the import conducted by the Development Seed team. We >> identified no overlaps with existing buildings or roads in OSM and plan to >> conduct the import via JOSM. Our full plan is outlined in the wiki. >> >> - Proposal and plan: >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Northern_Zambia_Buildings_Import >> - Issues, code, and data: >> https://github.com/developmentseed/zambia-buildings-import >> >> We would appreciate any feedback before we conduct the import. Please feel >> free to contact me or open an issue on Github if you have any questions. >> >> Best, >> Lauren >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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