Hi list,

By mistake I sent my remarks to Rafael directly.

Below you can see the what I wrote.

Regards

Arne

> Anfang der weitergeleiteten Nachricht:
> 
> 
> Hi Rafael,
> 
> I have done a lot of manual river mapping in Somalia and Somaliland and here 
> are some remarks how I did it:
> 
> - almost no river I mapped as perennial
> - most of the rivers I mapped with intermittent=yes
> 
> - the ditches or drains I mapped were ditches leading to farmland for 
> irrigation or leading to reservoirs (so called 'berkads'). 
> - all other waterways I mapped as stream or river, distinguishing both more 
> intuitively than by a fixed width.
> - I don't remember having mapped a canal
> - Riverbeds I mapped along some rivers where I thought it might improve the 
> understanding of the topography for the reader of the card
> 
> - when flow direction was unclear if added a fixme
> - for waterways ending somewhere in the desert or before reaching the sea 
> shore I tagged the ending point with waterway=stream_end. Josm validator 
> doesn’t know this tag and throws a warning that I ignore.
> 
> - Crossing points of unclassified or higher class highways and rivers or 
> streams I mapped with ford=yes; for tracks and paths I didn’t do that 
> consequently.
> - Highways crossing a broad riverbed: I tagged the part of the highways that 
> runs through it with ford=yes. I did this wether I mapped the riverbed or not.
> - for highways inside a riverbed I did the same
> 
> For the workflow you are defining, Rafael, my additional suggestions are:
> 
> - describe how to handle stream_end
> - describe how to handle the crossing between the imported rivers and the 
> very old and wrong highway-data in the area ( we were talking about it before)
> - describe how to use ford=yes
> - describe how to handle ditch or drain
> - decribe fixme for unclear flow direction
> 
> So far my 5 cents.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Arne
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> Am 08.04.2020 um 12:42 schrieb Rafael Avila Coya <[email protected]>:
>> 
>> Hi, Christoph:
>> 
>> Thanks to your questions, I've consulted the info about the original tags, 
>> and I've found some info that can improve the data to submit for import to 
>> the users.
>> 
>> ACC takes only 2 different values: "1" means accurate and "2" means 
>> approximate. But almost all of the 44,360 ways take the value "1", and only 
>> 45 take the value "2". So I guess we can safely ignore it. Not ignoring it 
>> would mean adding a fixme="please, check geometry accuracy" tag to those 45 
>> ways. Easy to do, but I don't know if it is worth. I've checked all of them, 
>> by the way, and the majority will be simply ignored (deleted) during the 
>> import process.
>> 
>> ACE_EVAL has the value 21 for all ways. It's meaning is "FZD: Evaluation 
>> deferred", so we ignore it.
>> 
>> ALE_EVAL values don't give any info at all. Ignored.
>> 
>> F_CODE and FCSubtype are equivalent. The values are:
>> 
>> F_CODE;FCSubtype;Meaning;Number of ways
>> BH020;0;Ditch;1
>> BH030;1;Canal;2,307
>> BH140;2;River;42,052
>> 
>> I've checked many objects with FCSubtype="1", and they appear to me to be 
>> more ditches than canals in the majority, so I would rather tag all "0" and 
>> "1" occurrences of FCSubtype with waterway=ditch, asking the users (as with 
>> all waterways) to decide if that tag is correct for each waterway in the 
>> workflow wiki.
>> 
>> As for the rest of the ways (42,052), they will be tagged as river or stream 
>> by default according to the tag HYP as already told in the wiki, and with 
>> users deciding if changing its value or not during the import.
>> 
>> FUN has only one way with value "Fully functional", so we ignore it.
>> 
>> HYP has, as already said, 3 values:
>> 
>> 1 = Perennial (267 ways)
>> 2 = Intermittent (3,294 ways)
>> 4 = Dry (40,799 ways)
>> 
>> This will be difficult to translate to OSM tags. If any, I would put 
>> intermittent=no for the HYP="1" ways, and intermittent=yes for the rest. And 
>> then users deciding. Any thoughts on this?
>> 
>> LOC has only one way with the value "44: On surface", so we ignore it.
>> 
>> NVS has only one way with the value "0: Unknown", so we ignore it.
>> 
>> SRC_NAME has 3 values:
>> 
>> "0", meaning "Source is not known". 139 ways have this tag.
>> "110", meaning "Very High Resolution Commercial Monoscopic Imagery". 9,321 
>> ways with this tag.
>> "112", meaning "High Resolution Commercial Monoscopic Imagery". 34,900 ways 
>> with this tag.
>> 
>> I've checked the 139 ways. They are most of them very short segments, that 
>> don't present any problem, and can be checked against imagery. So I would 
>> rather ignore the SRC_NAME tag.
>> 
>> UPD_NAME has 2 values:
>> 
>> "0", meaning "Source is not known". 139 ways have this tag.
>> "998", meaning "There is no possible value in the attriubte range that would 
>> be applicable. (May occur when the attribute is not applicable to the 
>> feature type (for example: the Airfield Type attribute of a Settlement 
>> feature type).)". All the rest of ways (44,221) have this tag. I would 
>> therefore ignore this tag.
>> 
>> ZVAL_TYPE: All ways have 2 values: 139 ways have the value "0" = Unknown, 
>> and the rest (44,221) have the value "3" = Feature is 2D only. So it gives 
>> us no interesting information, and therefore we can safely ignore it.
>> 
>> Cheers, and thank you very much again for your feedback,
>> 
>> Rafael.
>> 
>> O 07/04/20 ás 17:45, Christoph Hormann escribiu:
>>> On Tuesday 07 April 2020, Rafael Avila Coya wrote:
>>>> Hi, Christoph:
>>>> 
>>>> What do you mean when you say that it lacks any information on the
>>>> provenance and specifications of the source data?
>>>> 
>>>> As explained in the wiki, I am saying that the data is coming from
>>>> UNSOS, using SPOT imagery. You can download the data under data
>>>> source site, in the Background subsection of the wiki.
>>> I am sorry for being unclear - i was meaning:
>>> 
>>> * what is the meaning of the various attributes in the source data?
>>> Normally data sets like this come with a specification document that
>>> tells you what for example an attribute like FCSubtype=* or HYP=1 is
>>> meant to indicate.
>>> * how has this data been created from the SPOT imagery mentioned?  Was
>>> it produced with some kind of AI algorithm?  Was it traced by by
>>> humans?  If the latter was it done by people with local knowledge of
>>> the area or by people from abroad?  What was the original intended
>>> purpose of generating the data?
>>> 
>>> There are various peculiarities that can be observed looking at the data
>>> but i am reluctant to draw any conclusions or make recommendations
>>> based on these observations without knowing how the data was produced.
>>> 
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