Just an ideal thought. It came about as I'm loading in bits of Nigeria by the enamel bucket at the moment then looking for untagged ways and crossing highways.
What stands out are blocks where every track and settlement is mapped and blank bits of the map. I've been attempting to join bits of highway together to reduce the islands. Projects that ask for buildings are different but for projects where we are looking to map settlements and connecting highways if we omitted the paths and tracks leading to fields and rivers and mapped say two or three highways max to a cluster of three huts we might be able to get rid of some of the large gaps in the map and unless someone can think of a reason why tracks and paths leading to fields are essential I think many NGOs could manage without. In return we could make more settlements and highways available in the same time frame. Part of the problem is each project is looked at separately. Each project manager only thinks in terms of their own project rather than in terms of how much resources are available overall. I am aware that some organisations feel they are independent having their own mapathons but to get the quality up you need validation and if you don't believe me just have a look at the map after a mapathon. Nigeria is full of settlements wrongly tagged, building=residential or yes are amongst the most common incorrect tagging. A number of small villages have been interconnected with highway=primary etc. Crossing ways by the hundred. I don't know how you would write the instructions for a such a project but it might help the projects get completed more quickly. I heard an off the cuff remark about a project recently, "It'll take a year at that level of detail.". Off the cuff comments are more gut feel than accurate but there was an element of truth in the remark and I had the feeling the data was desired within a month or two. I would suggest if you want the mapping done quickly reduce the scope a little. Thoughts? Thanks John
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