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

2018-07-04 Thread Philippe Verdy
You should also not focus too much on the exact level of accuracy of shapes. What is important is to have relative size, correct placement, but minor architectural details which do not remove the possibility of attaching additional data and does not prevent refining it later ('wheen there's a new

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

2018-07-04 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
On Wed, July 4, 2018 1:47 pm, Oleksiy Muzalyev wrote: > Sometimes I myself cannot recognize on a satellite image what kind of > building it is, - a warehouse, a cowshed, a factory, etc., or how many > levels it has got. I have to look at its shadow, surroundings, roof > surface, to make a guess.

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

2018-07-04 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
On Tue, July 3, 2018 7:20 pm, john whelan wrote: > I think my concern is more about the 'then a miracle occurs' in the > project plan to clean up the buildings. Yes because, among other reasons: - For most people, verifying is not as gratifying as creating - Correcting entirely incorrect

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

2018-07-04 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
On Wed, July 4, 2018 3:00 pm, Philippe Verdy wrote: > You should also not focus too much on the exact level of accuracy of > shapes. What is important is to have relative size, correct placement, but > minor architectural details which do not remove the possibility of > attaching additional data

[HOT] What are the requirements for mapping buildings in Africa specifically in villages

2018-07-04 Thread john whelan
In the ideal world we can gain a lot of information from a perfectly mapped building. Unfortunately in the real world using beginners and editors without a building_tool we end up with imperfectly mapped buildings. Would we be better mapping them as nodes? It faster and studies have shown

Re: [HOT] OSM Awards - voting open!

2018-07-04 Thread Victor Sunday
Wow,this is greatis the nomination over? Victor N Sunday UniqueMappersTeam,Nigeria On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 6:07 PM, Rebecca Firth wrote: > Hi, > > Voting is now live for the OpenStreetMap Awards, and several familiar > faces have been nominated! Vote here: http://awards.osmz.ru/list > >

[HOT] OSM Awards - voting open!

2018-07-04 Thread Rebecca Firth
Hi, Voting is now live for the OpenStreetMap Awards, and several familiar faces have been nominated! Vote here: http://awards.osmz.ru/list Thanks, Rebecca -- *Rebecca Firth* Community and Partnerships Manager rebecca.fi...@hotosm.org @RebeccaFirthy *Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team* *Using

Re: [HOT] OSM Awards - voting open!

2018-07-04 Thread Rebecca Firth
Hi, Yes, nominations are now over, but the voting has begun - log in with your OSM account here to vote: http://awards.osmz.ru/list Thanks, Rebecca On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 2:27 PM, Victor Sunday wrote: > Wow,this is greatis the nomination over? > > Victor N Sunday > >