[HOT] landuse/cover import in Cameroon?

[Jean-Guilhem Cailton]

Hi Frederik,

Here is something I kind of remember from a recent thread on a OSM list,
about mapping in Africa - even if it was in another country, that could
explain what you observed: before going into the field to collect ground
data for mapping individual buildings, some teams first map roughly the
residential blobs from satellite imagery, to then have some positioning
references when they'll be in the field.

Best regards,

Jean-Guilhem


Le 04/02/2016 07:47, Frederik Ramm a écrit :
> Hi,
>
>    the revert is still ongoing; it is a *lot* of data. -- There are
> other strange aspects of mapping in that area, for example these
> residential blobs look auto-generated somehow:
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/394572178#map=17/5.44332/10.34317
>
> also if you look closely you'll find that buildings have been traced by
> someone other than the person adding the residential blobs, but
> buildings are sometimes inside, sometimes outside the residential blobs,
> and nobody seems to have cared to adapt the residential blob to where
> the buildings are.
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>


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