<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp60ee757eyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">
Mar.12 2020 12 h 16 UTC−4, Volker Schmidt wrote :
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br><div>> <span>It may have been a user who wanted to draw attention to the fact that she has inserted a place</span></div><div><span>> without knowing the name.</span></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div class="ydp60ee757esignature"><div><span style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(0, 0, 191);font-weight:bold;"> </span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(0, 0, 191);font-weight:bold;"></span>For the Mali example given by John, an Overpass query reports some 1,200 such points north of Mali, the majority added in 2013. Note that I did coordinate the humanitarian response at the time with Andrew Buck. See his message at the time <a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/hot/2013-February/002802.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/hot/2013-February/002802.html</a> <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">These names were added for the Mali humanitarian response in 2013 at the request of UN agencies and NGO's answering in the area. If we remember, we did innovate at the time using Imagery tiles to spot villages in often flooded areas, then traced roads from these villages. Then NGIS data was imported. Since geolocation is often very imprecise, we did manually add these infos placing them at the best of our knowledge.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">The local ressources are still quite limited in Mali even at the government level. The OSM volunteer community has organized a few missions in the south to revise names but it is more difficult to deal with the northern area. And badly, the volunteers do not manage the subsidies that were received from such humanitarian actions.<br></div><br><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><span style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(0, 0, 191);font-weight:bold;"><font style="background-color: inherit;" face="garamond, new york, times, serif">Pierre </font><br></span></div></div><br></div></body></html>