Re: [HOT] Experienced mapper please verify: nonexistent stream on Task #1955, other mistakes

Suzan, I believe it is a watercourse, look at the location at level 16 with Mapbox imagery, it does appear to go to the stream to the east. Another issue I see is the extra large Residential area polygons, they should be just around the houses and not include so much area without houses. Regards,

Re: [HOT] Today is GIS Day

Thanks for the encouragement Tyler. The attendees of the Portland Oregon GIS Day mapathon enjoyed watching the progress of all the ongoing mapathons. Emmor On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Tyler Radford wrote: > All, > > Today is Day 3 of OSM Geo Week: GIS Day. I encourage everyone to take 10

Re: [HOT] Groups/areas of Trees=> leisure=park?

Mike, I would suggest that natural=wood should be the first tag, if the area is a park then the next tag could be leisure=park. The OSM page on forest has good descriptions. In Ethiopia often the Orthodox churches are in the middle of a sm

Re: [HOT] Difficulty in communicating with iD users

Thanks Dale & Mikel, JOSM and iD are just tools, each with their strengths and weaknesses. I have made thousands of edits with both and demonstrate both when I lead mapathons, most people choose to edit tasks with JOSM, but many like iD, the important thing is to coach them to create good data.

Re: [HOT] Highway=residential in Africa

I would suggest that a tag like* highway=rural_residential* would be valuable. I often see dwellings in agricultural areas connected by a road/track/path. To classify a road as "unclassified" has always baffled me. Often in Ethiopia I see houses about 50 meters apart along a road which connects to

Re: [HOT] Volunteering

Saul, I affirm the advice given by Mark and Rafael. Don't be afraid to start mapping and contribute. I would also suggest going to a HOT tile that isn't complete but other editors have started on. That way you can see how other people have tagged features. Regards, Vao (Palolo) On Tue, Feb 3,

Re: [HOT] Mapping UNMEER's geo-information resources in Liberia

My understanding is that Esri has contributed a great deal of time and resources to this effort. On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 3:04 AM, FOFANA BAZO BAGNOUMANA < fofana.13b...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hum!!! > this map is powered by ESRI??? > > 2015-02-15 3:39 GMT+00:00 Pierre Béland : > >> The UN Mission f

Re: [HOT] Validation

Nick, Blake & althio, Good practical advice. I think it is important to remember that there are humans on either side of the validation. There have been times when I added a few features and then validated, other times I start adding and realize that quite a bit had been missed and then I'm kind of

Re: [HOT] #923 - Mayendit, South Sudan - highways to ditches?

It appears that the Leer-Mayendit primary road in the north portion of the project is under construction in this imagery? Is it flooded? There appears to be quite a bit of water in the video. Any tag requirements? Regards, Emmor On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 7:12 AM, Kretzer wrote: > Actually, I w

Re: [HOT] Mayendit task

Pete, I would appreciate the feedback from site visits. It is difficult to know if the imagery shows buildings or trees, paths or streams. Hopefully the mapping will make things go faster in the field. Emmor On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Pete Masters wrote: > Hi Pierre, > > I totally agree.

Re: [HOT] Anybody has time to handhold me through untangling a task?

Majka, The mapping in this area is comparable to other projects I've seen in Tanzania. Over-mapping residential areas and paths is kind of overkill, but personally I don't think it hurts to have them mapped. The bigger concern I have is buildings mapped as lines, that is something that should be m

Re: [HOT] Anybody has time to handhold me through untangling a task?

Yes, the Highway tagging wiki http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 5:46 PM, john whelan wrote: > African tagging guide? > > The highway wiki? > > Thanks John > > On 22 Nov 2016 8:52 am, "Vao Matua" wrote: > >>

Re: [HOT] Anybody has time to handhold me through untangling a task?

ld be "unclassified". everything else is > probably "track", not many paths here in my opinion. > > Waterways: difficult to distinguish from tracks. I added/completed two in > the SE corner. > > Regards > Henning (hebolz) > > > > > > >

Re: [HOT] Could we get more out of our mappers by asking for less?

John, I think there is merit to what you are saying. The one caution I would suggest is that "If something is worth mapping it is worth mapping correctly". Here in Ethiopia I have spent a lot of time adding nodes to roads that were digitized at a coarse scale. Mapping quickly doesn't have to be

Re: [HOT] Fwd: Re: landuse=residential within landuse=residential

Nick & John, Determining where to draw the edge of landuse=residential can be difficult. Here in Ethiopia most of the population lives in a rural setting where they farm areas of 1 to 10 hectares in size. http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/6.9634/38.4408 There are places where people live in vil

Re: [HOT] Fwd: Re: landuse=residential within landuse=residential

; areas. >> >> Ideally, such change would be preceded by discussing on the HOT and >> tagging list and followed by updating the wiki definition of a boundary, >> and by updating the HOT materials for users. It would need a slight change >> in JOSM HOT presets

Re: [HOT] Buildings and residential areas: Buldings as nodes (Q1)

My opinion is that buildings should be mapped as areas. In un-mapped areas it would be best to create landuse=residential areas first rather than quickly tagging buildings with single nodes. When it comes time to trace buildings it is troublesome to convert single nodes to polygons. For existing si

[HOT] State of the Map Africa 2017 Early bird registration closes soon

Please join us in Uganda for the first State of the Map Africa conference. Kampala Uganda 8-11 July 2017 http://sotmafrica.org Early bird registration ends next week. If you are unable to attend please consid

Re: [HOT] small round buildings

They look like small dwellings similar to the ones in pastoral communities in Ethiopia. However, I do not have on the ground experience in Central Africa. On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 7:49 AM, Daniel Specht wrote: > Are the small round buildings in Borno graneries or houses? They are not > in citie

Re: [HOT] residential roads within built-up areas

At State of the Map Africa conference earlier this month we had several discussions about road tagging. The Africa Highway Tagging Guide has been updated to reflect those discussions. Personally I have found that thinking of the tagging hier

Re: [HOT] Highway Tag Africa wiki

I led the discussion at the Highway Tagging workshop on the last day of SOTM Africa. There was quite a bit of discussion and agreement that the existing tagging can be frustrating, however, we did not generate any new proposals for additional tags. We did agree on some changes to the Africa Highway

Re: [HOT] Highway Tag Africa wiki

igher than tertiary as I think they are best left to local >> knowledge or someone with more specialised knowledge. >> >> Many Thanks >> >> John >> >> On 28 July 2017 at 23:25, Vao Matua wrote: >> >>> I led the discussion at the Highway Taggin

Re: [HOT] Highway Tag Africa wiki

tly labelled living_street in Angola. I >> suspect the problem is people do not read the documentation but copy the >> tags of another mapper and sometimes these are not as accurate as one might >> like. >> >> Cheerio John >> >> On 29 July 2017 at

Re: [HOT] Highway Tag Africa wiki

Ukundji Thank you for you comments, yes Ethiopia needs to have an OSM restart. For the last 10 months I was living in SNNPR and was not able to meet a single OSM contributor. The infrastructure, unfortunately, makes OSM contributions and even use very difficult. Ethiopians would be very interested

Re: [HOT] landuse=residential and routing problems

Interesting situation Marco, one I've often seen in Ethiopia. I would suggest that creating "virtual" roads is not a good idea. The purpose of routing software is to help someone navigate the real world. If someone were to try to drive an imaginary route it would cause problems. Additionally I fin

Re: [HOT] Highway Tag Africa wiki

; > *highway=track* > - Previous description was > >- The small roads going outside the residential areas, mainly for >'''agricultural and forestry''' purposes. Tracks can also be found in >National Parks and Game Reserves. In general these roads do

Re: [HOT] Why the HOT obsession with low quality buildings in Africa ?

When you say "low quality" buildings, do you mean the quality of the polygon data or are you judging someone's home to be of low value? On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 1:24 AM, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: > Active in Senegal and Mali, I have noticed that changesets tagged with > tasking-manager HOT projects

Re: [HOT] Getting the Bounding Boxes of the Validated Regions

Serkan, The last value is the same as the first, it closes the polygon. On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 8:06 AM Serkan Karakulak wrote: > Hi Joseph, > > Thanks a lot, this was exactly what we needed indeed! Much appreciated, > thank you for your help. > > Is there a reason that there are five coordinat

Re: [HOT] leisure=common replacement for urban public areas in Africa]

I'm not quite sure why landuse=village_green doesn't meet this need. There are plenty of examples of British word usage in OSM are not the same as the original vernacular. Often in Africa an open area can be quite green in the rainy season and brown in the dry season. I'm not opposed to this propos

Re: [HOT] NB: Organised Editing Guidelines | Re: Final Request: Volunteers Needed for Global Mapathons!

Mikel et al, I agree that we need to change the way we do mapathons, the credibility of HOT and OSM is at risk. I have observed some characteristics about the OSM mapping through HOT tasks being done by mapathons, primarily ones done by corporate sponsors. It appears that often these efforts are n

Re: [HOT] NB: Organised Editing Guidelines | Re: Final Request: Volunteers Needed for Global Mapathons!

On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 11:05 AM Rory McCann wrote: > On 28.03.19 02:57, Vao Matua wrote: > > I have observed some characteristics about the OSM mapping through HOT > > tasks being done by mapathons, primarily ones done by corporate sponsors. > > It appears that often these effor

[HOT] Edits from India

On a couple of HOT projects in Tanzania there are some edits that did not follow the task instructions, and actually created some very poor quality. It appears that the editors are from India and are new editors. Some of the tags that have been added to the changesets are: #acnglobalmapathonfy19 #A

[HOT] Corporate mapathon?

I am seeing edits in our HOT projects in Tanzania with these hashtags: #ACNAustraliaFY19 #acnmelbourne #acnaNZ-june20 Last month we had significant problems with the work associated with these hashtags. Does anyone know who they are and the contact information about the leader? Thanks Emmor

Re: [HOT] Asking your help to map in Honduras, Chad and Burundi for MSF

Is anyone else having a problem invalidating tiles today? The TM keeps throwing errors when I try to invalidate a tile, or tiles. On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 6:09 AM Matthew Gibb wrote: > Thanks for sharing Jorieke! > > Sounds like a great #ValidationFriday effort! > > Matt > > > On Fri, Jun 28, 201