<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">I think adding area=yes which is mainly buildings would be good but there are so many and if you look at them in JOSM you can tag a batch at a time. It might be an idea to identify which areas are in desperate need of buildings and give them higher priority in Map Roulette if that could be done.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Cheerio John<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 October 2016 at 20:27, Mike Thompson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:miketho16@gmail.com" target="_blank">miketho16@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Should we make these into a Map Roulette challenge?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Mike</div></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 8:44 AM, john whelan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jwhelan0112@gmail.com" target="_blank">jwhelan0112@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">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.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">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.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">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.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">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.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Cheerio John<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br><br></div></div><div class="m_-1831904854045396221HOEnZb"><div class="m_-1831904854045396221h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 October 2016 at 10:28, Augustin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:xhemp@mykolab.com" target="_blank">xhemp@mykolab.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Hi<br>
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<p>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.<br>
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Have a good day from Bouaké,
<p>Augustin<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">There
are thousands of untagged ways marked area=yes. Most are
buildings.<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">The
process for cleaning up is grab a country from <br>
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<a href="http://download.geofabrik.de/africa.html" target="_blank">http://download.geofabrik.de/a<wbr>frica.html</a><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">use
osmconvert64 to convert it into .osm format<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br>
osmconvert64 G:\maps\niger-latest.osm.pbf
-o=f:\maps\niger.osm<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">you may
need to select an area within this to make it small enough to
fit into JOSM.<br>
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osmconvert64 f:\maps\nig.osm
-b=8.8416511,4.284668,14.24308<wbr>69,15.6884766 -o=nig1.osm <br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">start
JOSM with lots of memory this is 8 gigs.<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br>
java -Xmx8210000000 -jar G:\josm\josm-tested.jar <br>
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Load up the local file into 64 bit JOSM.<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Go to
Edit, Preferences, validator, and untick everything except
untagged, empty and one node ways. This is purely for speed.<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Validate,
select the untagged ways, search in them for area=yes and add
them to the todo list. Tag them.<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Cheerio
John<br>
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