Hello everyone, Thanks for all your comments. After some consideration, I've decided to manually edit the building tags as suggested by Michael:
addr:housenumber=<stand number> + addr:place=<nameof city/borough> I will use JOSM and a WMS layer with the data I want to add. So I believe this no longer constitutes an import. Best, Jason On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 3:35 PM Michael Reichert <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jason, > > Am 13/02/2019 um 11.52 schrieb Jason Owen: > > *What are the requirements?* > > The Local Authority is aiming to release an android app in March this > year > > that allows local residents to geolocate urban issues such as potholes, > > street lights not working etc. These issues are emailed to the > responsible > > people through the app (the app is built on the open source FixMyStreet > > <https://www.fixmystreet.com/> platform which makes use of OSM for > > geocoding). The address system in Kariba like most of Zimbabwe is quite > bad > > - one thing that does work is a "stand number" which is given upon > purchase > > of a plot/property and and that many people post outside their houses. In > > my opinion this is the best option for geolocation in Kariba. Hopefully > one > > day we have a good address system but for now many streets are not named > > and many houses do not have street numbers... > > Does a building get a new number if it is is built on a plot with am > existing building? Or do the two neighbouring buildings (the old and the > newly built) share a stand number? > > Are stand numbers only unique within a city or a borough? There is > something similar in Germany (and other European countries as well). A > lot of smaller villages do not have street names. When a building is > built, the local authorities assign the next free number. Only buildings > in the centre of these villages seem to have ordered number because they > got their numbers en bloc when addresses were introduced. These numbers > are only unique within the village. The name of the village is used as > street name in postal addresses in these cases and addr:place used > instead of addr:street. > > It looks to me that addr:housenumber=<stand number> + addr:place=<name > of city/borough> is a valid tagging in your case. > > > *If its to associate a particular plot code with a building or plot then > > could you just add a tag to the existing building?* > > Yes this is an option. I have downloaded the OSM data for Kariba from > > Geofabrik. Can I update the tags "type" and "name" in QGIS and then > upload > > the whole shapefile of buildings with updated tags using JOSM... this > would > > be more efficient than manually tagging each one. > > It looks easier but it bears the risk that you mess up data by > automatically editing it. Don't underestimate the conflation of existing > OSM data with your data. > > In addition, an import should not replace existing geometries in OSM by > new objects just because it is "easier". Instead, the existing > geometries should be modified to preserve their history. > > > *Do you want to map the plots independently of the buildings?* > > This is another option since the plots are different from the buildings > as > > John has pointed out. I see there is also a landuse layer in OSM - would > I > > be replacing/updating that or creating a whole new layer? > > There are no layers in OSM in usual GIS sense. > > Did you get familiar with OSM in the past by doing some mapping in OSM > in the area where you live and/or which you know well, e.g. adding > points of interest or enhancing the map with local knowledge? It helps > one to understand how OSM works, how the data looks like, how good the > data is and what to do if things go wrong. > > I think that people on this list can give concrete advice if you write > down your plan on a wiki page as others imports do. You will find > examples in the archives of this mailing list. > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/imports/ > > Best regards > > Michael > > > -- > Per E-Mail kommuniziere ich bevorzugt GPG-verschlüsselt. (Mailinglisten > ausgenommen) > I prefer GPG encryption of emails. (does not apply on mailing lists) > > _______________________________________________ > Imports mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
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