[HOT] unknown structures are buildings?
Mark Cupitt
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Wed Nov 5 02:23:09 UTC 2014
Hi Blake, wonderful effort. Well done.
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On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 5:12 AM, Blake Girardot <bgirardot at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I will get those pages finished up in the next week or so.
>
> From the conversation here I see I need to add in something about the
> buildings with no roofs and maybe something about fences.
>
> Any additional recommendations or feedback on the existing items is
> welcome.
>
> Cheers,
> Blake
>
>
>
> On 11/4/2014 3:59 PM, Michel Gilbert wrote:
>
>> Hi Ian,
>> I found this page:
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Bgirardot/West_
>> African_HOT_Mapping_Tips
>> that is created by BGirardot that provides good tips helping to
>> understand the context for mapping West Africa in terms of features.
>>
>> As an uninitiated HOT mappers I would need more of these.
>>
>> Michel
>>
>> On Tue Nov 04 2014 at 1:27:33 PM <thatwoodb at hushmail.com
>> <mailto:thatwoodb at hushmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I agree wholeheartedly with Ray. It would be very helpful to have a
>> page of examples of W. Africa satellite imagery showing, 1)
>> buildings that are often overlooked by mappers, especially the less
>> experienced ones, because they may not look like buildings to the
>> uninitiated, and; 2) things that are often mistaken for buildings,
>> but aren't. This catalog could be even more useful if further broken
>> down by areas/countries whose structures differ somewhat, as well as
>> by typical rural vs urban structures.
>>
>> If s/he has neither visited these countries nor studied their
>> cultures, a mapper's working at a distinct disadvantage without such
>> examples. I've spent some time looking at photos online of
>> traditional buildings in this part of the world to try to improve my
>> mapping, but these shots are taken from ground level, of course. And
>> as Ray points out, it's a completely different experience when
>> viewing them from a satellite's POV.
>>
>> -Ian
>>
>>
>> On 11/4/2014 at 3:03 AM, "Ray Kiddy" <ray at ganymede.org
>> <mailto:ray at ganymede.org>> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 4 Nov 2014 09:51:54 +0100
>> Claire Halleux <claire.halleux at hotosm.org
>> <mailto:claire.halleux at hotosm.org>> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Ray,
>> >
>> > For cassava, you could add something on the following page I
>> guess:
>> >
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag:
>> crop%3Dcassava
>> >
>> > If you intend to use a screenshot of imagery, make sure you
>> keep the
>> > copyright visible. We got permissions to do so from MapBox,
>> HIU and
>> > Bing, for training purposes.
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> >
>> > Claire
>> >
>>
>> I am not explaining myself well. The page you are pointing to has
>> a
>> picture of casava taken from the ground. This does not help me
>> identify
>> anything if I am looking at casava in a photo taken from a
>> satellite.
>>
>> How does one recognize a mound of casava in Liberia? Or a yurt in
>> Mongolia? Or a well in Pakinstan? From satellite imagery? Does a
>> well in
>> Pakistan look like well in Montana? Probably not. So, when one
>> has no
>> experience with an area of the world, how can one identify its
>> structures? One way is to look at a bunch of satellite imagery
>> and keep
>> asking questions, over and over. Or, perhaps pictures of
>> differently
>> shaped structures can be pulled out which identifies different
>> structures and describes where they appear. Like a catalog.
>>
>> So, is there some catalog of satellite imagery that will show what
>> things look like in various places, for training purposes? Or
>> would
>> there be suggestions on how to create one and where it could be?
>>
>> thanx - ray
>>
>> >
>> > On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 2:58 AM, Ray Kiddy <ray at ganymede.org
>> <mailto:ray at ganymede.org>> wrote:
>> >
>> > > On Tue, 4 Nov 2014 09:16:50 +0800
>> > > maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com
>> <mailto:emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > To me, it looks like building=construction (the dividing
>> walls are
>> > > > visible). Nearly the same as what I've seen on the ground
>> in
>> > > > Malawi, Africa.
>> > > > If you're unsure, just tag it as building=yes.
>> > >
>> > > Is there a place on a wiki to place pictures that can be
>> examined to
>> > > learn to recognize some of the local structures? A catalog
>> that
>> > > shows how different things appear in different places?
>> > >
>> > > I have had similar questions. I had a pic and the round
>> honeycomb
>> > > looking things were identified as casava plants growing in
>> bunches
>> > > in Liberia. Is there a logical place on one of the wikis, a
>> sort of
>> > > image catalog, where I could add this pic and mark it with
>> "Casava
>> > > plant, Liberia, resolution of image = x"?
>> > >
>> > > I was editing in "#479 Tharparkar Drought, Sindh, Pakistan",
>> and
>> > > some of this stuff could have been on the moon. I just have
>> no
>> > > context to figure out the shapes of houses, what wells look
>> like
>> > > (just like houses?) and so on.
>> > >
>> > > A catalog of the structure types one might find in, for
>> example, the
>> > > deserts of Pakistan might be helpful.
>> > >
>> > > We could me mapping in Mongolia and I am also not going to
>> know
>> > > what a yurt looks like from above. Same thing.
>> > >
>> > > I went to the wiki and did a search, for example, on
>> Pakistan and
>> > > got back, as you might expect, the page on Pakistan. This
>> page does
>> > > not show me, however, how the different types of houses
>> there may
>> > > appear in imagery.
>> > >
>> > > I can, of course, start something, and will. I just wanted
>> to see if
>> > > there are suggestions from you all first.
>> > >
>> > > thanx - ray
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > > On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Warren Roberts
>> > > > <gisteacher at gmail.com <mailto:gisteacher at gmail.com>>
>> wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Does anyone have an idea if these are walls for building
>> > > > > (without roof) .. there are many and in Sierra Leone.
>> Wanted
>> > > > > to identify them ether to digitize them as buildings.
>> Thanks
>> > > > >
>> > > > > [image: --]
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Warren Roberts
>> > >
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