Should we make these into a Map Roulette challenge? Mike
On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 8:44 AM, john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote: > A lot of HOT projects are in Africa and they ask for buildings. Often > when I validate on them I see a fair number of buildings mapped but not > tagged correctly. I'm not saying that all the area=yes untags are from HOT > mapping but a lot of it is in areas where HOT has projects. > > Recently I loaded up a couple of African countries in JOSM. Recently I've > tagged more than a thousand untagged ways mainly highways. So there are a > lot more highways showing on the map. Untagged means they don't show. > > Many HOT projects seem to like buildings. These are buildings that are > already there but untagged. It's a quick way to add lots of buildings. > > The other side of the coin is I think there is a responsibility to clean > up as many of the mappers are registered in HOT. Yes we are part of OSM > but some of the mapping done leaves a little to be desired. It's only when > you load up a big chunk that you see just how many there are. Validation > often isn't happening or its done by inexperienced mappers. > > Cheerio John > > > > On 16 October 2016 at 10:28, Augustin <xh...@mykolab.com> wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I don't understand the link between your mail subject "Help wanted >> cleaning up in Africa, needs JOSM and Todo plugin" and the Humanitarian >> OpenStreetMap Team Mailing list. Maybe there is a context linked to >> specific countries and a lot of mistakes related to a previous activation, >> which could explain the link with HOT, if so please explain it. If not, >> this email should be posted on the related-countries mailing lists in >> appropriates languages. >> Have a good day from Bouaké, >> >> Augustin >> Le 16/10/2016 à 13:05, john whelan a écrit : >> >> There are thousands of untagged ways marked area=yes. Most are buildings. >> >> The process for cleaning up is grab a country from >> >> http://download.geofabrik.de/africa.html >> >> use osmconvert64 to convert it into .osm format >> >> osmconvert64 G:\maps\niger-latest.osm.pbf -o=f:\maps\niger.osm >> >> you may need to select an area within this to make it small enough to fit >> into JOSM. >> >> osmconvert64 f:\maps\nig.osm -b=8.8416511,4.284668,14.2430869,15.6884766 >> -o=nig1.osm >> >> start JOSM with lots of memory this is 8 gigs. >> >> java -Xmx8210000000 -jar G:\josm\josm-tested.jar >> >> Load up the local file into 64 bit JOSM. >> >> Go to Edit, Preferences, validator, and untick everything except >> untagged, empty and one node ways. This is purely for speed. >> >> Validate, select the untagged ways, search in them for area=yes and add >> them to the todo list. Tag them. >> >> Cheerio John >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing >> listHOT@openstreetmap.orghttps://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> HOT@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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