[HOT] Help wanted cleaning up in Africa, needs JOSM and Todo plugin

[Mike Thompson]

Should we make these into a Map Roulette challenge?

Mike

On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 8:44 AM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:

> A lot of HOT projects are in Africa and they ask for buildings.  Often
> when I validate on them I see a fair number of buildings mapped but not
> tagged correctly.  I'm not saying that all the area=yes untags are from HOT
> mapping but a lot of it is in areas where HOT has projects.
>
> Recently I loaded up a couple of African countries in JOSM.  Recently I've
> tagged more than a thousand untagged ways mainly highways.  So there are a
> lot more highways showing on the map.  Untagged means they don't show.
>
> Many HOT projects seem to like buildings.  These are buildings that are
> already there but untagged.  It's a quick way to add lots of buildings.
>
> The other side of the coin is I think there is a responsibility to clean
> up as many of the mappers are registered in HOT.  Yes we are part of OSM
> but some of the mapping done leaves a little to be desired.  It's only when
> you load up a big chunk that you see just how many there are.  Validation
> often isn't happening or its done by inexperienced mappers.
>
> Cheerio John
>
>
>
> On 16 October 2016 at 10:28, Augustin <xhemp at mykolab.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I don't understand the link between your mail subject "Help wanted
>> cleaning up in Africa, needs JOSM and Todo plugin" and the Humanitarian
>> OpenStreetMap Team Mailing list. Maybe there is a context linked to
>> specific countries and a lot of mistakes related to a previous activation,
>> which could explain the link with HOT, if so please explain it. If not,
>> this email should be posted on the related-countries mailing lists in
>> appropriates languages.
>> Have a good day from Bouaké,
>>
>> Augustin
>> Le 16/10/2016 à 13:05, john whelan a écrit :
>>
>> There are thousands of untagged ways marked area=yes.  Most are buildings.
>>
>> The process for cleaning up is grab a country from
>>
>> http://download.geofabrik.de/africa.html
>>
>> use osmconvert64 to convert it into .osm format
>>
>> osmconvert64 G:\maps\niger-latest.osm.pbf  -o=f:\maps\niger.osm
>>
>> you may need to select an area within this to make it small enough to fit
>> into JOSM.
>>
>> osmconvert64 f:\maps\nig.osm -b=8.8416511,4.284668,14.2430869,15.6884766
>> -o=nig1.osm
>>
>> start JOSM with lots of memory this is 8 gigs.
>>
>> java -Xmx8210000000 -jar G:\josm\josm-tested.jar
>>
>> Load up the local file into 64 bit JOSM.
>>
>> Go to Edit, Preferences, validator, and untick everything except
>> untagged, empty and one node ways.  This is purely for speed.
>>
>> Validate, select the untagged ways, search in them for area=yes and add
>> them to the todo list.  Tag them.
>>
>> Cheerio John
>>
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