Many schools in Uganda will follow exactly that name pattern: "VILLAGE NAME Primary School".
This is extremely common, especially in smaller places. So please don't delete "Primary / Secondary School" from the name tag as it is most likely an integral part of the name indeed. Am 24. Januar 2016 03:38:36 EAT, schrieb Rafael Avila Coya <[email protected]>: >Hi, Enock: > >I have already imported hundreds of nodes, and found only one >duplicate. > >In case of duplicates, it's quite clear: just merge them in one. If the >names are similar, like in your example, I would put one of the names >as >alt_name. > >Cheers, > >Rafael. > >On 23/01/16 22:54, Enock Seth Nyamador wrote: >> Hi Jo, >> >> That sounds like a clue though but sometimes there could be more than >> one Primary/Secondary schools in same village/parish and other way - >> duplicates (as in my current task with 2 nodes each with same names). >> Adding the parish/village as an integral part of name could conflict >> with an existing feature name. >> >> Best, >> >> - Enock >> UMaT, Tarkwa >> enockseth.github.io <http://enockseth.github.io/> >> >> On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 9:32 PM, Jo <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> 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] >> <mailto:[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 <http://enockseth.github.io/> >> >> On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 3:50 AM, Rafael Avila Coya >> <[email protected] <mailto:[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]> >> > <mailto:[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> >> > <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]>> >> > > <mailto:[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]>> >> > <mailto:[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> <mailto:[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>>> >> > > >https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports >> > > >> > > >> > >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Imports mailing list >> [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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