Hi, Christoph:
Thank you for your time and input. My comments inline:
On 07/07/16 15:40, Christoph Hormann wrote:
On Saturday 02 July 2016, Rafael Avila Coya wrote:
As there isn't any local OSM community yet, we contacted the HOT
mailing list for opinions.
This statement astonishes me - if there is no organized local community
but obviously locally made mapping you should try and contact mappers
active in the area for their opinion.
Note also Bhutan is a fairly popular tourist destination and there is
likely quite a bit of local mapping done by visitors. Even if you are
not able to contact any native local mappers for their opinion you can
certainly try to get in touch with people who have mapped in country
there and who might be able to make a more competent assessment if such
import makes sense or not.
Do I need to contact local mappers to trace buildings with aerial
imagery. If so, I guess most of mapping in many African and Asian
countries should be reverted. I refer to my answer to Frederik's email
on how this import (data integration) will be done, and why it is
respectful of local communities.
Based on a quick look:
- you seem to have among 13610 buildings 1531+2579 obvious errors. This
indicates poor quality original data and without any possibility for
ground verification i think this disqualifies the data from being
imported in OSM.
I don't think it disqualifies the data in any way whatsoever. It would
disqualify it for an automatic or semi-automatic import. But building
footprints will be imported ***manually*** through a project of the
Tasking Manager, by OSM community. They will align them, and when there
are two footprints for the same building, they will ignore (delete) the
worse of the two. It's like mapping buildings with aerial imagery, but
with a better quality and much easier and faster. Win-win.
- you seem to intend running Douglas-Peucker on roads but do not provide
any explanation as to why you think this is a good idea, let alone any
assessment if the results meet any kind of quality criterion.
I had to go to Google to know what you mean with Douglas-Peucker. People
will understand you better if you say simply "using simplify way tool".
Anyway, the reason is simple: We reduce the number of nodes. We did it
for the Tanzania road import, and everybody was happy, to no surprise.
- The road data lacks any highway tags and largely lacks proper
connectivity between road segments.
As they will be imported manually, one by one, there isn't any problem
with that. They will be joined, corrected, ignored, etc, on a one-by-one
basis.
- The house numbers are obviously not unique city-wide but you don't
have any tag except addr:housenumber on the address nodes.
But in many cases it's very simple to see what street they belong to.
They will be added their add:street. But this is part of the second
import, and we will be in contact with the people in Bhutan (both locals
and the Nepalese trainers), so we can assess better the quality of the data.
So in short apparently:
- you have not contacted anyone who has mapped in Bhutan locally
Explained.
- you have no idea on the local road tagging practice
There isn't local road tagging practice for Bhutan. In fact, there isn't
local road tagging practices for many countries in the world, and yet
many people (like me, proudly) map thousands of roads of every type
everywhere.
But there is a wiki that was written after lots of opinions and
discussions, that fits very well for most developing countries: the
Highway Tag Africa wiki [1].
- you have no knowledge of the local address system
Explained. We aren't starting that second part of the import before
local community give their opinion, hopefully soon.
- you have no idea of the existing data in OSM in the area
And you say that, and you are happy. Great.
yet you want to import data there.
I won't import data. It will be the OSM community who will. Quite a
difference.
Maybe it would be a good idea to have that group of Kathmandu Living
Labs who are going to work with the local people to find out what is
necessary to make a proper assessment of the data as part of this work,
discuss the import possibility with the locals and then - if the
reaction is positive - manage the import with a solid knowledge of the
matter.
As it is i can only say i disapprove of this import plan.
I am not surprised of your disapproval.
Cheers,
Rafael.
[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa
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