[HOT] Sierra Leone, #hotosm-ebola-672 : Feature Interpretation

Michel Gilbert michcasa at gmail.com
Tue Nov 11 20:40:06 UTC 2014


Hi Blake,

I thank you for your throughout response. I think I stick with
landuse=farmland with a second tag for fixme, unless I obtain a second
option for somebody else.

I appreciate your help.

Cheers,

Michel
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 13:55 Blake Girardot <bgirardot at gmail.com> wrote:

> Correction:
>
> For the palm orchard I think the correct tagging is:
>
> landuse=orchard
> crop=palm
>
> Cheers,
> Blake
>
> On 11/11/2014 1:40 PM, Blake Girardot wrote:
> >
> > Hi Michel,
> >
> > This is just my opinion and I am sure someone will correct me if I have
> > it wrong:
> >
> > That looks like a mix of cassava fields, rice paddies and palm orchards
> > to me. I am not sure about the rice paddies exactly where you linked to,
> > but north of there are rice paddies I am pretty sure.
> >
> > For sure it looks cultivated to me so you can tag it with
> landuse=farmland.
> >
> > Then you have the option to include the crop=cassava or crop=rice where
> > appropriate or orchard=palm, but I would put a fixme=confirm crop on
> > there if you did designate a crop type.
> >
> > For examples of cassava you can see some here:
> >
> > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Bgirardot/West_
> African_HOT_Mapping_Tips#Cassava_.28Manioc.29_Crops
> >
> >
> > I will probably use the rice paddies from north of the location you sent
> > to help illustrate what rice paddies look like as I am on the lookout
> > for examples.
> >
> > As always, it is difficult to be 100% sure of the crop so you can either
> > just stick to landuse=farmland or also put the fixme=confirm crop tag on
> > if you add the crop=* tag to the landuse=farmland tag.
> >
> > Thank you for asking!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Blake
> >
> >
> > On 11/11/2014 12:54 PM, Michel Gilbert wrote:
> >> Hi everyone,
> >>
> >> I would like to trace the feature that appears in this area :
> >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?editor=id&#map=19/8.96459/-11.94620.
> >>
> >> Is there anyone could help me ?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> --
> >> Michel (Pythagore-MGi)
> >>
> >>
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