<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#e8e6e3" face="Arial" style="--darkreader-inline-color:#d8d4cf;"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">Hi Naomi, </span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#e8e6e3" face="Arial" style="--darkreader-inline-color:#d8d4cf;"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thank you so much for working on importing essential data to OSM and, in particular missing infrastructure facilities in Dadaab. On behalf of a group of OSM Kenya members who reviewed the planned import, here are some thoughts / questions / comments that we have:</span></p><br><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><b>Data quality and accuracy</b></span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The linked maps are dated January  2019; a lot of changes occur daily across refugee camps; therefore, one year+ is quite long for this dataset to reflect the actual state on the ground. Has the data been updated since the initial data collection? Are all these facilities operational? If so, can this be noted as well?</span></p><br><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><b>Closed camps</b></span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As recently noticed while mapping project </span><a href="https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/8823" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">8823</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> to support COVID-19 response efforts in Dadaab, several camps have been closed between 2018-2019. See media reports </span><a href="https://reliefweb.int/report/kenya/unhcr-operational-update-dadaab-kenya-june-2019#:~:text=Kambioos%20refugee%20camp%20was%20closed,support%20in%20Kenya%20and%20Somalia." style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">here</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. As part of your data preparation and cleaning process, have these areas been catered for, i.e., removing features in these areas so that we do not import non-operational infrastructure?</span></p><br><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><b>OSM Tagging</b></span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Kindly take note of specific tagging guidelines for the East African region </span><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/East_Africa_Tagging_Guidelines" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">here</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (water point infrastructure) and, similarly, guidelines used by Map Kibera </span><a href="https://www.mapkibera.org/wiki/index.php?title=Tagging" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">here</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(health facilities and water point infrastructure).</span></p><br><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><b>Import schedule</b></span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Could you kindly give more information on this: Data prep, data merging, conflict resolution process, QA, etc. This will be important for future updates and imports.</span></p><br><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><b>Corrections and updates</b></span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Are there plans to update and maintain this data? If so, could you add a comment on the same?</span></p><br><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><b>Deletion</b></span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For validation and future updates, kindly note that deleting something for a project might affect someone else’s  - it’s difficult to know the true “provenance” of an object, and we all want to make an accurate map. Secondly is the practicalities of databases: deleted nodes still take up room in the database, and for an open-source platform that is not well-funded, it is vital to conserve database space. Its therefore advisable to move nodes, and add attributes to enrich existing data as opposed to deletion.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thank you so much for reaching out to the local OSM community in Kenya via the mailing list and </span><a href="https://twitter.com/OSMKenya" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Twitter</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> :) You can also get more feedback from the global OSM community by sharing this on the imports mailing list: </span><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports</span></a></p></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#666666" face="Arial" style="--darkreader-inline-color:#a8a095;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Laura Mugeha</b></span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#666666" face="Arial" style="--darkreader-inline-color:#a8a095;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif">OSM Kenya, <a href="mailto:osmkenya@gmail.com" target="_blank">osmkenya@gmail.com</a></span></span></font></p><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div></div>