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<div>Actually, I was considering mapping all the fences as well, because the patterns are really beautiful ...</div>
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<div>Right now I took a brave (or stupid?) decision to change some long stretches from highway to "waterway=ditch". One was even tagged as "<tt dir="ltr" style="background-color:#dde; white-space:pre;"><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dmotorway_link" title="Tag:highway=motorway link">motorway_link"</a></tt> .</div>
<div>With the imagery it is often quite hard to tell the difference bewteen paths or raods and ditches, but it seems to make more sense that there are many drainage ditches in those wetlands. And the end is a giveaway: roads normally don't end in rivers .... http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/8.1729/29.9339&layers=H</div>
<div>I wasn't sure about the middle structure though, this could be path or ditch. maybe there are path running along such ditches.</div>
<div>What do you think? Or doesn't it matter at all, as no humanitarian units would need this information for finding the people? (At least it does make sense to remove the motorway, I guess ...)</div>
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<div>Also I found this video that shows some of the area: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jbDQNj6X_I - it does look quite wet there, but of course this will depend on the season.</div>
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<div style="margin:0 0 10px 0;"><b>Gesendet:</b> Freitag, 06. März 2015 um 12:52 Uhr<br/>
<b>Von:</b> "Severin Menard" <severin.menard@gmail.com><br/>
<b>An:</b> "Tom Taylor" <tom.taylor.stds@gmail.com><br/>
<b>Cc:</b> Kretzer <kretzer@gmx.net>, "hot@openstreetmap.org" <hot@openstreetmap.org><br/>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: [HOT] #923 - Mayendit, South Sudan - buildings and roads</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 12:42 AM, Tom Taylor <span><<a href="tom.taylor.stds@gmail.com" target="_parent">tom.taylor.stds@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0 0 0 0.8ex;border-left: 1.0px rgb(204,204,204) solid;padding-left: 1.0ex;">The larger round huts are dwellings, the smaller ones are storage. The linear items around the buildings and huts are walls (barrier=wall).</blockquote>
<div>In South Sudan, actually it is generally fences and not walls. Check on <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=mayendit&client=ubuntu&hs=nHs&channel=fs&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=Bo75VN6AGoHnUPrRgZAH&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAw#channel=fs&tbs=itp:photo&tbm=isch&q=village+south+sudan+trip" target="_blank">these pics</a><br/>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0 0 0 0.8ex;border-left: 1.0px rgb(204,204,204) solid;padding-left: 1.0ex;">The buildings and huts should be labelled building=yes.
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On 05/03/2015 7:00 PM, Kretzer wrote:</div>
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<div class="h5">Hi,<br/>
I have some questions about this new project:<br/>
In the western part there are quite unusual structures, there are many buildings<br/>
stretched in long lines. Like here:<br/>
<a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/8.1325/29.9831&layers=H" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/8.1325/29.9831&layers=H</a><br/>
I started mapping these as residential areas, unless there were only one or two<br/>
single buildings - would you do that? Or is it better to just map the buildings?<br/>
I can't even be sure there buildings are really used for permanent living, just<br/>
assumed that. Maybe there is someone with mor knowledge of the area?<br/>
I'm also curious what the many round strucures in the open area are. They could<br/>
well be man-made, maybe something like haystacks (or whatever material would be<br/>
collected there).<br/>
Also I am unsure about the roads. There is one tagged as main road that's not<br/>
even visible on the imagery. I guess that doesn't make sense (particularly as<br/>
the other main road can clearly be seen as something like that), but didn't dare<br/>
to touch the top-level structures.<br/>
Thanks, and sorry again if I am asking in the wrong place!<br/>
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