<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div dir="ltr">We are pleased to discuss with students taking such initiatives and some of us shoud be pleased to support such projects.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>I also transferred your message to the<span style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415544080529_3877" class="" role="option"><em style="" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415544080529_3876"></em></span><b style="" class=""><em> </em>hot-fran</b>cophone@openstreetmap.org discussion list</div><span style="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415544080529_3877" class="" role="option"><em style="" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415544080529_3876"></em></span><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415544080529_3897"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415544080529_3920">where the Cameroun community is participating. It would be important that you coordinate with this community. If somebody in your group could speak french, this would surely help to exchange with them.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415544080529_9007" dir="ltr"><br><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415544080529_3920"></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415544080529_9006" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415544080529_3920">See this video about OSM_CI where we see Eurosha volunteers. Among them are Jorieke and Ben from HOT and OSM Belgium. These Eurosha volunteers are still surprising me with all the nice videos they made.<br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415544080529_3919" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415544080529_4021">We cannot interpret a road network only from imagery or our experience in northern countries. Note that from our experience in various OSM responses in Africa we have created a wiki page <a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415544080529_3941" href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Highway_Tag_Africa">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Highway_Tag_Africa</a> specific to the african countries. <br></div><br><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415544080529_4006">There is a certain challenge to better classify the road network of a country. As we see in the video, there are referentials that can be used. To classify based on the importance of the various towns, Population statistics and list of administrative towns would be useful.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415544080529_9205" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415544080529_9186" dir="ltr">See also <a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415544080529_9185" href="https://twitter.com/OSMCameroun">https://twitter.com/OSMCameroun</a><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415544080529_9186"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415544080529_3898"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415544080529_3899" class="signature"><span style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(0, 0, 191);font-weight:bold;">Pierre <br></span></div><br> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415544080529_3677" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415544080529_3676" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415544080529_3735" dir="ltr"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415544080529_3900" size="1"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415544080529_3734" face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">De :</span></b> s55447 <s55447@beuth-hochschule.de><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">À :</span></b> hot@openstreetmap.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Envoyé le :</span></b> Dimanche 9 novembre 2014 8h47<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Objet :</span></b> [HOT] Fwd: mapping standards<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415544080529_3675" class="y_msg_container"><br>Regards to all list members!<br><br>I'm one of a group of cartography students from Germany. One of the <br>courses in our master program deals with OSM mapping of the Region West <br>in Camerun. We're aiming on two things: Final goal no. 1 is to fill <br>gaps and correct existing routes and their attributes mainly based on <br>satellite imagery. Secondly, goal no. 2 is a final one, too, but <br>contains basic work prior to our mapping process: We want to find or <br>develop tagging standards for Camerun which shall finally become <br>available at the OSM-page "Tagging guidelines by country".<br><br>So we're all together 15 students that start working on the road <br>network. BUT that's important for us:<br><br>1. We would like to get in contact with mappers who have already worked <br>on that before or doing it right now. We would like to share experiences <br>in order to avoid working and discussing on things that others have <br>already done or that has been already discussed. And of course: We want <br>to avoid interfering with mapping activities that are going on right now <br>in that region, but rather combine our efforts for the next few weeks in <br>order to produce a consistent output.<br><br>2. On which basis have the existing routes been tagged before? Where <br>there specific agreements for Camerun? What about the usability of the <br>criteria proposed on the "Highway Tag Africa"-page in the OSM-Wiki which <br>is initiated by HOT? What about the usability of "Référentiel <br>Géographique Routier" which can be seen on www.geocameroun.cm?<br><br>Finally, we would like our contributions to be substantial in order to <br>develop a standardized and reliable geoinformational fundament on which <br>further mapping can be consistantly conducted. So we're looking forward <br>to any advices!<br><br>Best regards from Germany! kamak<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>HOT mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:HOT@openstreetmap.org" href="mailto:HOT@openstreetmap.org">HOT@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>