It was more of a heads up comment about data quality. Certain projects use
building counts to estimate population for one reason or another. The one
I spotted was about did it make financial sense to install solar panels.
So if you count the number of buildings this gives you an indication of
Hi John,
Thanks for this suggestion.
Would it be an idea to enhance the mapathon instructions, to include
suggestions such as running scripts like these (at the validation stage, or
perhaps run by the task owner)?
If anybody wants to get together to discuss those planning/ best
practice-related
A snapshot of 10% of Uganda gave me 870 duplicate buildings. This is where
two buildings overlap by more than 50%. This is merely to give you an idea
of the scope of the problem.
If you are relying on the data then running Mike Thompson's detect building
script will find any duplicates in your
Dear All,
We are following this discussion on Highways with interest in Uganda. I am
awaiting further input on 'service roads' from Uganda Bureau of Statistics
and other national and regional bodies with many years of experience, and
we are also learning through community field mapping on the
The first comment is It looks reasonable to me but I'm not the technical
authority on this one. Pierre might be better.
Second comment is we can invoke a special preset with iD when opened by
Task Manager.
Realistically the mappers we want to nudge most are those who only map once
and have very
Hi John, dear friends,
Just to add that we've been collecting road mapping tips (and other
goodies) here on Google slides (in the HOT drive):
http://bjohas.de/go/mmintro (see p. 65).
We've said this:
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Can it be passed by a vehicle? → unclassified (or better) / residential
/ track
