Hi Enock, Went to a Missing Maps event this afternoon and was a bit pressed for time when I answered. When you drop Primary/Secondary school from those names, all that's left is the name of the village/parish. That's not the name of the school either, so I'd say it's an integral part of the name after all.
Jo 2016-01-23 13:08 GMT+01:00 Enock Seth Nyamador <[email protected]>: > 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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