Greetings everyone,
It has just been incredible to see the progress on Vanua Levu; so Thank You! I know we all like to 'know for sure' that our efforts will be utilized, and although the AWG still hasn't received a request/direct use-case to make this a 'full-blown' disaster mapping incident; I can assure you that we've made so much impact on the data in Fiji, that now routing apps and such will be one thousand times more effective and useful. It is my intention to keep the projects coming unless another incident requires us to divert attention. That said, I just updated the instructions on project 1623; many of you probably noticed that as we approach Labasa, it's becoming a much different 'type of mapping' - this is a heavily developed farming community and therefore the road network 'looks much different' than what we've been mapping on Vanua Levu so far. Most importantly I added 'highway=service' into the mix of 'typical roads' you'll find around here. Also, being farmland, there are a bazillion 'farm tracks' (highway=track) that don't really help in terms of disaster relief; so where we said before that 'highway=path' are not essential unless they lead to/from settlements; that 'rule of thumb' should also apply in these areas - in other words, don't spend too much time, and validators - don't 'beat them up' if they are not tracing these 'roads to no-where'. In general, my goal is to have buildings and the road network to get to those buildings. And that's were highway=service will come more into play in this area; basically the difference between the farm-tracks (highway=track) and the 'driveways' (highway=service) is whether or not they lead to buildings. Thanks again, and Happy Mapping! =Russ Russell Deffner [email protected] Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) http://hotosm.org <http://hotosm.org/>
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