<div dir="auto">I think the guidelines cover it nicely. I'll sprinkle a few pointers around.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I've found changeset comments don't work terribly well with HOT mappers. By the time I stumble across a problem it's a year or more later and they last mapped 9 months ago.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In theory they do have a validation process but in practice they have fewer validators than they need.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The other problem is currently many have a comment saying Microsoft buildingfootprints. DWG them and the quick solution is to leave the comment off.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It's a balance between adding a lot more buildings in and adding too many. In some areas with few buildings they are useful.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">With the new mapathon clean up tools in JOSM duplicate buildings aren't a major problem and these buildings are a lot better than many drawn with ID but an ounce of prevention saves a lot of clean up plus until it is cleaned up it messes population estimates up.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thank you for the pointer.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheerio John</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 17, 2024, 05:05 Mateusz Konieczny via talk, <<a href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org">talk@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div dir="auto"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines" rel="noopener noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So they need either actual human review or going through that process.<br></div><div dir="auto">If buildings are being duplicated on large scale than likely neither was followed.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I would write changeset comment on their edit asking to fix that.<br></div><div dir="auto">In worse cases - revert edits altogether and in the worst or continued contact DWG<br></div><div dir="auto">to get them blocked (starting from 0-hour block in milder cases).<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Note that occasional mistake happens to everyone, but people should also<br></div><div dir="auto">react if they get changeset comment and fix data they broke.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jun 14, 2024, 03:34 by <a href="mailto:jwhelan0112@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">jwhelan0112@gmail.com</a>:<br></div><blockquote style="border-left:1px solid #93a3b8;padding-left:10px;margin-left:5px"><div dir="auto">I'm seeing earlier buildings being duplicated by these in Uganda by at
least one HOT project.<br></div><div dir="auto"> <br></div><div dir="auto"> Do we have a formal protocol on how these should be "imported"?<br></div><div dir="auto"> <br></div><div dir="auto"> Thanks John<br></div><div><div dir="auto">--<br></div><div>Sent from <a rel="noopener noreferrer noreferrer" href="https://www.postbox-inc.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,157,247)">Postbox</span></a><br></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div> </div>
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