<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430681712676_204855">Exactly Andre</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430681712676_204923"><br></div><div>We want to show connections from highways to paths to houses. This will hep support these people.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430681712676_204854"><span></span></div><div> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430681712676_204924" class="signature"><span style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(0, 0, 191);font-weight:bold;"> <br><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif">Pierre </font><br></span></div><br> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">De :</span></b> Andre Engels <andreengels@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">À :</span></b> hot <hot@openstreetmap.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Envoyé le :</span></b> Lundi 4 mai 2015 9h10<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Objet :</span></b> Re: [HOT] Path mapping restrictions in tasks<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>In my opinion, when there are no (major) roads, but only paths, the<br clear="none">most important paths become as such the 'major road network'<br clear="none">themselves. The way I interpret this restriction is that we do not<br clear="none">want paths that do not connect to anything, so-called islands n OSM<br clear="none">terminology. We also do not want small paths that just connect to one<br clear="none">small patch of farmland. But where there is a path to the next<br clear="none">village, but no road, that's a path we really do want, methinks.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">André<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Pat Tressel <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:ptressel@myuw.net" href="mailto:ptressel@myuw.net">ptressel@myuw.net</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">> The instructions for (e.g.) task #1018 say to map only paths that connect to<br clear="none">> "major road networks". I'm mapping in the Borang area from Digital Globe<br clear="none">> imagery (not the imagery listed for this task -- there is no Bing imagery<br clear="none">> here and the MapBox imagery is low-resolution). There *are* no roads, let<br clear="none">> alone road networks, in this area. If we don't map foot paths that don't<br clear="none">> connect to "road networks", there won't be any travel routes marked at all.<br clear="none">> Prior mappers in this are have started to map paths (including some<br clear="none">> well-known paths, such as the Ganesh Himal trek).<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Note these areas also do not appear to have good helicopter or small plane<br clear="none">> landing sites -- they are terraced and steep.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> So...can the restriction be relaxed in these remote areas that do not have<br clear="none">> roads? If the restriction is relaxed, what should the criterion be?<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Also, regarding paths: In some places, paths that are well-defined for part<br clear="none">> of their length will disappear under trees, or will be hard to distinguish<br clear="none">> when they run along a terrace, or split into multiple less-distinct paths.<br clear="none">> I'm wondering if there are other sources of information about paths to and<br clear="none">> between remote villages. Perhaps trek guide companies? Old maps that could<br clear="none">> be rectified using Mapwarper? Anyone familiar with those areas who could<br clear="none">> have a look at the imagery, and advise on where an indistinct path most<br clear="none">> likely runs?<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> -- Pat<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> _______________________________________________<br clear="none">> HOT mailing list<br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:HOT@openstreetmap.org" href="mailto:HOT@openstreetmap.org">HOT@openstreetmap.org</a><br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot</a><br clear="none">><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">André Engels, <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:andreengels@gmail.com" href="mailto:andreengels@gmail.com">andreengels@gmail.com</a><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yqt1156732847" id="yqtfd31539"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">HOT mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:HOT@openstreetmap.org" href="mailto:HOT@openstreetmap.org">HOT@openstreetmap.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>