[HOT] [Ebola] Import of 14, 020 United Nations Mission in Liberia place nodes

[Ralf Stephan]

A few more observations, probably not new to fellow importers,

   - often when it seems UNMIL objects are placed in the mid of the jungle,
   there is an isolated dwelling somewhere
   - often when I encounter very different GNS vs. UNMIL place names in a
   hamlet area it's worthwhile to look far outside (1km) for a UNMIL node that
   matches the GNS node better. Voila, misplaced GNS node found.
   - for the same reason I always do a final scan of the square, looking
   for offroad GNS nodes that might match a lone UNMIL node. Usually I find
   one or two.
   - this is more controversial. We are told to keep A, B, C or #1, #2 in
   place names. I don't question that in general. However when I find big
   villages that have a GNS name (say Bopolu) in the center, and five UNMIL
   names (say Bopolu A to E) very near to that, then I think it improbable
   that Bopolu has five suburbs named so, because else the UNMIL objects would
   be distributed much more evenly over the area. I have condensed it all into
   one object (with 5 UNMIL ids so the are not lost) in such cases. I have had
   less then five such cases so far, no worry. But it makes me speculate that
   most names with additional A, B, C are automatically generated, because I
   find that the larger the hamlet/village is the more such objects are found.

Regards,

On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 7:42 AM, Rafael Avila Coya <ravilacoya at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> Hi all:
>
> The Tasking Manager job to import [1] these set of places has being
> discussed in the imports list, issues have been addressed and the
> wikis have been written, with a detailed workflow [2] to secure a
> consistent import process.
>
> This job will greatly improve the map for Liberia, and therefore will
> be of great help for organizations working to control Ebola outbreak
> in West Africa.
>
> As this job is quite delicate, it has been decided to make it private.
> I've added to the job the same users that were contributing to the GNS
> merging job [3] + myself.
>
> If anyone else is interested in participating in this import, please
> reply to this list to have your name added.
>
> For all those that will contribute, please read carefully the workflow
> wiki [2] and make sure you understand all the steps.
>
> Cheers, and thank you very much in advance for contributing,
>
> Rafael.
>
> [1] http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/652
> [2]
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import_Liberia_UNMIL_Places_Workflow
> [3] http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/617
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