[HOT] Kenyan or African OSM community?

[Pierre Béland]

The thinking behind this North Africa Tagging comes from our discussions while activating for Mali And Congo.

While working on this wiki page, I insisted about the importance for people from the north to think differently how to map subtropical countries. I think that it is essential to categorize roads by their socio-economic importance. The road surface condition should not take precedence over the importance of the road. 


An other aspect is related to the infrastructures. We started to list important infrastructures like wells and water points. However, this needs to be more detailed.
This year, the USAID - HOT Cap-Haitien project, north of Haiti, gave the HOT Project team the opportunity to pursue this thinking and develop a Humanitarian Map style. I had the opportunity to work for this project in a "subtropical" context and observe the local reality while the rainy season was approaching and approaching. Our motorbike mapping teams then suffered the road conditions deteriorating rapidly. We also saw the importance to describe activities or infrastructures that are important to the local communities.   The piedestrian paths, the crafts and shops are essential to describe appropriately such towns.  


The HOT mapcss style that Yohan Boniface and Will Skora are completing presently is focusing on such information and is very usefull to render it appropriately. The maps below talk by themselves.

Map of Limonade, north of Haiti http://hotosm.github.io/HDM-CartoCSS/#17/19.66845/-72.12412

Map for Kibera in Nairobi. http://hotosm.github.io/HDM-CartoCSS/#17/-1.31269/36.78819

 
Pierre 



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À : Mikel Maron <mikel_maron at yahoo.com>; Daniel Westergren <westis at gmail.com>; "HOT at openstreetmap.org" <HOT at openstreetmap.org> 
Envoyé le : Jeudi 22 août 2013 17h03
Objet : Re: [HOT] Kenyan or African OSM community?
 

During the Mali mapping work a wiki page was created:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/North_Africa_Tagging

Originally a 'Mali tagging' page was planned, but I suggested generalising more. I guess the process of spotting things in aerial imagery in rural North Africa will be very similar to east africa.

...but also pretty similar to south africa, and actually pretty similar to rural india. Not sure how to organise that actually. Maybe "subtropical" regions all have a lot in common. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Klimagürtel-der-erde.png

Aside from that scoping question, I'd say the page could be improved to be more like mapping cheatsheet with actual images for easy reference.

Harry
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> The topic of tagging features specific to African context, good one. Actually really relevant right now, as Map Kibera does more work on sanitation mapping. Why don't we just have that discussion here on this list for now? Can you explain more what kinds of features you've been mapping, and how you've been tagging them? Are you doing remote mapping, or based in Kenya?

>>There are several elements that are special to mapping in African countries, like roads, huts, enclosures etc. and I'd like some feedback on how to map some of those.

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