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Hi Pierre:<br>
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Thank you for the pointers to the 2013 discussions. I will look at
the archive.<br>
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I can tell you that from what I have seen on the ground, the Mali
activation is definitely a success, in particular if you compare the
level of details and accuracy with google maps. <br>
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I do like the approach of differentiating the road importance and
its condition as currently explained in the guidelines, and I think
it works well with the "Primary/Secondary/Tertiary" classification.<br>
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It appears some people in Senegal have raised the same issue about
the use of trunk, so I am going to follow up with them.<br>
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Regards,<br>
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Vincent Dawans<br>
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Thanks to come and discuss about this. And I am pleased to have
the opportunity to discuss with you and have comments on how
usefull are those maps for road navigation. We dont have often
some feedback from people travelling in these areas and this is
much appreciated. I am also happy to see that you try to have
local people to collect data with GPS.<br>
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If we want to progress collectively on this, it's worth take
time to discuss before amending the wiki page. And it would be
interesting that some african contributors participate to such
discussion. Other HOT coordinators for various Activations
might also have something to say about this.<br>
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Note that you should find various discussions on the subject on
the Hot list in 2013.<br>
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We initiated the Mali_Highway_tag wiki page in early 2013 to
help in the context of the Mali Activation the remote mappers to
classify the highways in a more coherent approach.Thus, have the
possibility to deliver rapidly a more coherent road map with all
the remote mappers contributing to the classification. <br>
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At the time, we had various discussions on both the HOT irc and
then HOT discussion list. Later, some discussions suggested that
such classification was representative of Africa in general and
the page was renamed to Highway_Tag_Africa. As explained in the
wiki page, we thougth that it was important to make a difference
between the importance of the road and it's surface / condition.<br>
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It seems interesting to add the trunk and the motorway
classifications. Since we need other information then simply
classify from observation of the Imagery, I think that such
categories should be added in a clearly identified section of
the wiki page, probably with a color box. Then I suggest that
instructions should be given that these classifications are
later added, once the roads have been traced from Imagery. This
should be done by experience mappers that do have appropriate
information about the road network. Ideally, this step should
always be done and had planned to do it for Mali. But we often
do not have people witth the local knowledge to revise the road
classification and adapt to the context of the country or region
like you propose. Plus we had a lot of Activations to take care
in 2013.<br>
<br>
It is surely welcome if you propose to revise the classification
for the major roads being part of theTrans-African Highway
Network or others.<br>
<br>
Regard<br>
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