[HOT] Chequerboard Pattern

[Harry Wood]

I certainly have noticed this. It drives me nuts to be honest.


I remember during the Nepal response mapping I did nothing but fixing up ugly square bits of forest. I think a few other people joined in with this too, because these days I can see we've mostly eliminated them across that massive area.
I don't know what the solution is really. I think the statutory instructions should be *Do not add square bits of forest*... but not sure if everyone would agree, and I guess people will do it anyway. Anyone have other ideas?


In the case you mentioned we have an old archived TM project at  http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/816  . which did actually ask for forest data:


"Also of interest are "gallery forests" (forests that form corridors along rivers or wetlands and project into landscapes that are otherwise only sparsely treed), as these are prime tsetse fly habitat (natural=wood)."  

Particularly fiddly details to map, so it would take a lot of effort to finish it off and eliminate the chequerboard effect there. Seems messy that it's just left like that though.

Harry

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From: Russell Deffner <russell.deffner at hotosm.org>
To: 'Kretzer' <kretzer at gmx.net>; 'HOT Openstreetmap' <hot at openstreetmap.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, 17 May 2017, 17:34
Subject: Re: [HOT] Chequerboard Pattern



Yes, the typical Tasking Manager projects (with squares vs. arbitrary task size) are not really good for doing large natural/landuse features like forest. Not sure what project(s) that is and if it's asking for that, more likely and I often see mappers adding features that are not requested in the project. It can make a tough time stitching all those forest bits together although in this case it doesn't look too bad, yet.
=Russ

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From: Kretzer [mailto:kretzer at gmx.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2017 6:11 AM
To: HOT Openstreetmap
Subject: [HOT] Chequerboard Pattern

Hi,
have you noticed how the use of the Task Manager sometimes produces nice patterns like here:  http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=9/5.5244/25.1862 ?

You can see that at least some users are very diciplined in staying inside the box :-)

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