Aren't they similar to the concept of building blocks in Japanese cities, or in South America (in terms of addresses) ? May be their origin in Africa are the family clans and their tradition. But here is is in a rural area, and the structure looks mostly like farmyards and surrounding farmlands connected to each of them, creating a connected mosaic with evident constant links between them.
(possibly these names used as toponyms are also used as family/clan names, so there could be personal data issue to map them, unless they are officialized for use by the local postal/fiscal/police administration) Such tradition may not be very old in a region where sedentarisation is recent, and nomadism and migrations have largely drawn the landscape; these installations of stable buildings, and delimiation of properties and fields are not necessarily bound to the current people that live there, but the names were left there for this small human settlements surrounded by fields for agriculture and the concept of village to group them is probably tied to the links that conenct them to a community service or place of worship, school, shared water facility, or places of markets. This also looks like what was the rural areas in Europe or North America up to the end of the 19th century, when more than 4 people on 5 were living from agriculture and within small areas of life (this changed raidacally starting with the constrution of railways, then the arrival of automotives). At that time, the "villages" were existing mostly administratively of because of the incluence of the local place of worship or because of influence of a local ruler or some nobility. Le lun. 24 févr. 2020 à 12:43, Donal Hunt <[email protected]> a écrit : > > There does not appear to be much documentation around the concept of > moranças. In OSM, it's normal to propose a method for mapping this data and > requesting review of the proposal. See > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal_process > > The only other comment I have at this time is whether there are any concerns > around data protection / security given the ability to identify groups of > individuals. If I was doing this in Ireland, I would not add surnames to > residential houses even if the data was available / permissions was granted. > > Specifically, on the tagging question. landuse=residential; morança=yes; > name=<name> does seem a reasonable approach. You may also want to look at > place=neighbourhood or boundary=administrative (the latter does have an entry > for Guinea but not Guinea Bissau). A review of tags already in use for the > country may help identify a good approach. > > Regards > > Donal > > On Sun, 23 Feb 2020 at 15:16, mbranco2 <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Dear List, >> >> I'm involved in a project with an Italian high school (IIS A.Avogadro, >> Turin) mapping N'Tchangue area in Guinea Bissau. >> After completing the related HOT project (#7151), we're going to add >> detatils to the Map (schools, health center, water wells...) having this >> informations from a NGO (Abalalite) which works there. >> Abalalite is giving us information (the name) also about moranças, >> settlements of family clans (they range since 2 to 30 houses). >> As you can see in picture [1], moranças are very close each other, all >> together they form the hamlet/village named T'Changue. >> >> We'd like to know your opinion how is the best way to map moranças: >> - setting the name tag directly on landuse=residential area (maybe adding a >> "morança=yes" tag? It seems to me it's a specificity, to be areas inhabited >> by family clans) >> - adding the name to place=isolated_dwelling/hamlet tag (not sure it's a >> good idea to put so many hamlets so close each other; also, all together >> they are a village...) >> - or ... ? >> >> Thank you for your opinion, >> Marco (mbranco2) >> >> [1] >> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/N%27tchangue_Moran%C3%A7as.jpg >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
