Hi, Just a quick one.
Came across some schools with names; Primary School and Secondary School. This aren't names. What is best to do, just delete those tags? I would have removed them, If I was mapping personally. But as this an import, haven't seen anything related to it on the Wiki. Best, - Enock UMaT, Tarkwa enockseth.github.io On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 3:50 AM, Rafael Avila Coya <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Jo: > > Yes. It happens many times. As I said, it would be very nice to have a > JOSM plugin that would address switching between a list of user > accounts. My vision would be of a simple plugin that would allow to: > > 1) Create a list of user accounts, instead of having only place for one, > as it is with the JOSM standard Preferences. > > 2) Easy button in the tools bar to switch between user accounts. > > 3) A checkbox to decide if you want JOSM to warn you what's the user you > are using when uploading the data to OSM. That means: you hit the upload > button, and as a final step, JOSM tells you: you are uploading with > Polyglot OSM user account. Accept? (and the typical "cancel" and "Ok" > buttons). > > You have contributed lots of comments and great ideas, so I am not going > to pressure you with contributing more. Anyway, although it's a bit of a > nuissance, you will get used after a while. Many of us have done this > since about 3 years ago for lots of manual imports! And, if you get a > task with say 15 schools (I did yesterday one with 147!), the time you > spend switching between user accounts is less than 1% of the total. > > Cheers, > > Rafael. > > On 22/01/16 22:17, Jo wrote: > > I tried to use my import account. Failed to do it. The stuff that should > > have been uploaded with it, went up with my normal account. The > > subsequent non import stuff went up with my import account. > > > > It's too much of a hassle and yes I would need to switch back and forth > > between accounts constantly. > > > > So, I'll limit myself to doing validation work, until this silly rule > > gets finally lifted some day. I won't be holding my breath, no worries. > > > > Polyglot > > > > 2016-01-07 16:44 GMT+01:00 Rafael Avila Coya <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>>: > > > > Hi, Enock: > > > > Thank you for volunteering! > > > > Yes, Geoffrey has given his opinions already, and he offered > something > > very key here: help from the local OSM community. > > > > As I guess there are quite a number of active members in Kampala (for > > example), it could be of unvaluable help for double checking on the > > ground the facilities inside the city, as those are the mainly the > only > > ones hard to spot from imagery. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Rafael. > > > > On 04/01/16 15:42, Enock Seth Nyamador wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Very long discussion here. Glad I was able to follow. I've copied > > > Ugandan OSMer Geoffrey of Mapping Day Uganda[1] guess you might be > > > interested in this. > > > > > > Am interested in volunteering for this import. > > > > > > Best, > > > > > > 1. http://www.mappingday.com > > > > > > - Enock > > > UMaT, Tarkwa > > > enockseth.github.io <http://enockseth.github.io> > > <http://enockseth.github.io/> > > > > > > On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 9:42 AM, Jo <[email protected] <mailto: > [email protected]> > > > <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote: > > > > > > Doing what I did in these 2 edits: > > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3925002632/history > > > > > > would make the import a whole lot slower, as it would entail a > lot > > > more research (and fiddling with Wikidata), but it would also > make > > > the data even more useful. > > > > > > If it were me, I'd add Wikidata items for each of these > schools. I > > > can write a script that would make the process easier. I'm not > sure > > > about license issues though. If I drag a node over Bing > imagery and > > > upload it to Openstreetmap. Can I use those coordinates on > Wikidata > > > if I mention the source properly? Or are they already ODBL and > > > therefore incompatible. That would be really annoying. It > would mean > > > I have to make sure to add the coordinates to Wikidata first, > and > > > only after doing that upload to Openstreetmap, but I want to > mention > > > the source on Wikidata, so I need a reference url to the OSM > object... > > > > > > I think, at least for the schools with WP articles, it makes > sense > > > to do this. For the others I think it makes sense as well, but > it's > > > a lot more work. They would all get identifiers that way, > which may > > > make later conflation easier. > > > > > > Jo > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Imports mailing list > > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected] > >> > > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Imports mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports >
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