Re: [HOT] Mapping Moranças in Guinea Bissau

2020-02-24 Thread Philippe Verdy
Aren't they similar to the concept of building blocks in Japanese cities, or in South America (in terms of addresses) ? May be their origin in Africa are the family clans and their tradition. But here is is in a rural area, and the structure looks mostly like farmyards and surrounding farmlands con

Re: [HOT] Mapping Moranças in Guinea Bissau

2020-02-24 Thread Michael Montani
Rather than use morança=yes, I would propose morança as value of the key 'place'. Furthermore, in Africa, usually place=* is assigned to a point, located in the center of a residential area, while is uncommon to find it as tag of that area. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place The simpl

Re: [HOT] Mapping Moranças in Guinea Bissau

2020-02-24 Thread Donal Hunt
There does not appear to be much documentation around the concept of moranças. In OSM, it's normal to propose a method for mapping this data and requesting review of the proposal. See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal_process The only other comment I have at this time is whether there a

[HOT] Mapping Moranças in Guinea Bissau

2020-02-23 Thread mbranco2
Dear List, I'm involved in a project with an Italian high school (IIS A.Avogadro, Turin) mapping N'Tchangue area in Guinea Bissau. After completing the related HOT project (#7151), we're going to add detatils to the Map (schools, health center, water wells...) having this informations from a NGO (