[HOT] #1394 - Kinshasa Floods

[Michael Heißmeier]

Hi,

I am generally not a fan of large residential areas. It is ok to designate the 
built-up area of a complete village or smaller town as one residential area, 
particularly if hardly any more detail has been mapped so far but for cities 
this might generate trouble. You typically edit only a small part of it and 
would not even notice that this part falls completely within a residential area. 
You would soon end up with smaller landuse polygons drawn everywhere inside the 
original one. I usually mark landuse areas between larger streets as one entity 
in order to keep their size manageable.

As far as the problem with the stack of landuses in that area in Kinshasa is 
concerned, they were all mapped by one user (with little experience so far 
according to his profile) within the last few days. Did you try to contact him 
and offer guidance on how to do this appropriately? Otherwise he might continue 
mapping in this way.

In order to cleanup I would propose to remove those conflicting landuses and 
redo them from scratch. Sounds easier than to try to repair them.


Leon van der Meulen schrieb 2015-12-29 13:31:
> For now I tried to maintain most of the areas when possible but deleted a 
> couple when they would fall in a larger residential area. I worked around the 
> northern part of the priority area.
> Please share your thoughts about this issue.
>
> Best,
>
> Leon
>
>
>
>> On 29 Dec 2015, at 11:52, Leon van der Meulen wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I’m just checking out this task and some things just seem a little weird, for 
>> example this square: http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1394#task/162
>> A lot of areas are traced more than once, and residential land use isn’t 
>> mapped consistently. Wouldn’t it be better to trace the whole city once as 
>> residential and remove the smaller areas? Some are traced between roads, 
>> others just seem to be randomly drawn.
>>


-- 
/Michael
(osm:michael63) /
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