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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi,<br>
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      First: Thanks for your quick and elaborate response.<br>
      Contrary to what I wrote before, the road I meant didnt disappear,
      it was downgraded to a path and the rest left as a secondary. But
      this still explaines one of the problems with imports:<br>
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      You can do them automatically (using a separate account as it
      falls under the mechanical edit policy
      <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edit_Policy">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edit_Policy</a> - at
      least thats how I understood it), but what do you do with the
      roads/rivers/places that are already there?<br>
      Especially if, like in this case, the data to be imported is from
      2009 (at leastthats what the source tag says) and the Bing
      pictures are from 2003 (according to the bing aerial image
      analyzer). Many helpers like myself have used those images to
      trace various things  and will continue to do so; so there could
      be discrepancies.<br>
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      Can we limit this task to "well-seasoned mappers". Or do we have
      enough people willing and able to get the job done using some kind
      of private task manager not open to the general public?<br>
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      Whatever may happen, I am suer we can all agree that we should
      take all the data, help and people to help we can get.<br>
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      Regards, <br>
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      Simeon<br>
      Am 13.06.2013 13:26, schrieb Ben Abelshausen:<br>
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                        <div>Hi,<br>
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                        This import was started as part of the EUROSHA
                        project for the Central African Republic and
                        after the rebellion. The data being imported is
                        served with the task, a new feature for the
                        tasking manager that we developed while in
                        Cameroon. The data of the WRI can be served with
                        the task as a mapping aid. <br>
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                      <div>This is for now, an experiment but is meant
                        to be executed I guess. I'm sure that Severin
                        Menard, the lead for HOT on this project, can
                        also tell you something more about this.<br>
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                      As far as I know there is some confusion about
                      this task, a few of the blocking issues:<br>
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                    - Do we need to use a seperate import account? (the
                    import list is not very responsive)<br>
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                  - Is the WRI data suited for this? Maybe partly using
                  the data is something we can do.<br>
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                - This task is meant for well-seasoned mappers, is this
                something we can expect?<br>
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              This is my view on this little project and it's a bit sad
              to have all this data for a mostly completely unmapped and
              from a humanitarian perspective very difficult country and
              not use it. I think we should take every chance we get to
              improve the map for the CAR.<br>
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            If you have some suggestions on this, your thoughts are very
            very welcome on how to do this better.<br>
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                    <div dir="ltr">Met vriendelijke groeten,<br>
                      Best regards,<br>
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                      Ben Abelshausen<br>
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                      <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at
                        11:52 AM, Simeon <span dir="ltr"><<a
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                          Hi all,<br>
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                          Does anyone know if the WRI import already
                          started?<br>
                          There is a wiki page:<br>
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                            href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import_CAR_WRI_Data"
                            target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import_CAR_WRI_Data</a><br>
                          and a task:<br>
                          <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                            href="http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/219"
                            target="_blank">http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/219</a>.<br>
                          Although the task says that its only a test,
                          someone started to import roads around N'Dele:<br>
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href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=8.39936&lon=20.69708&zoom=15&layers=M"
                            target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=8.39936&lon=20.69708&zoom=15&layers=M</a><br>
                          The track there appears on my tiles as a
                          teriary road, but in the dataset there is
                          nothing left but a new track with access=no.
                          For me thats a strange combination, but the
                          wiki pages says so.<br>
                          >From tha satelite image, this road is
                          bigger than a track and comtinues further than
                          the import.<br>
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                          I dont want to step on anyones toes, its just
                          that I am confused why some roads disappeared
                          and that I havent heard anything about this
                          import.<br>
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                          Regards,<br>
                          <br>
                          Theodin<br>
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