<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426286975773_32138" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426286975773_32290">Tangentially, some of us have been working a system to make it easy to publish guides. Still in process, and no instructions. But I think this could be a great place to host Blake's guidelines on West Africa, as well as tips on huts.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426286975773_32138" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426286975773_32138" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426286975773_33340"><a href="http://hotosm.github.io/tracing-guides/guide/kulna.html" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426286975773_33339">http://hotosm.github.io/tracing-guides/guide/kulna.html</a><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426286975773_32138" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426286975773_33259"><a href="https://github.com/hotosm/tracing-guides/" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426286975773_33258">https://github.com/hotosm/tracing-guides/</a><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426286975773_32138" dir="ltr"><a href="http://hotosm.github.io/tracing-guides/" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426286975773_33293">http://hotosm.github.io/tracing-guides/</a><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426286975773_32138" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426286975773_32138" dir="ltr">-Mikel</div><div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1426286975773_32099"> </div><div><div>* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron</div></div> <br><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Saturday, March 14, 2015 7:36 AM, john whelan <jwhelan0112@gmail.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv2302965077"><div dir="ltr"><div class="yiv2302965077gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;">Could the link <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Bgirardot/West_African_HOT_Mapping_Tips">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Bgirardot/West_African_HOT_Mapping_Tips</a> be added to the instructions of all HOT West African projects?<br><br></div><div class="yiv2302965077gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;">I wasn't aware of it before the post on Surface mines characteristics and it clarified a couple of things for me. It's certainly useful when validating to have a reference to point enthusiastic mappers to.<br><br></div><div class="yiv2302965077gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;">If possible could an image showing two or three small settlements of say three or four huts joined together with what I would normally think of as footpaths to show how these should be mapped and the connecting highways tagged. I've noticed some variation between the mappers when validating.<br><br></div><div class="yiv2302965077gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;">Could we also have a guideline on huts? I've seen them mapped as a single point and as a circle. In JOSM its very quick to copy and paste a hut but that does mean slight variations in size are not mapped correctly.<br><br></div><div class="yiv2302965077gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;">The other issue would be isolated buildings, I tend to map the building rather than tag it landuse=residential again a guideline would be useful.<br><br></div><div class="yiv2302965077gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;">Rather than overwhelm the mapper with the idea that everything guidelined needs to be mapped I suggest somewhere it says perhaps in the instructions "For this project please map the roads and settlements according to the guidelines here: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Bgirardot/West_African_HOT_Mapping_Tips">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Bgirardot/West_African_HOT_Mapping_Tips</a>"</div><div class="yiv2302965077gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;"><br></div><div class="yiv2302965077gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;">Thanks John<br></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>HOT mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:HOT@openstreetmap.org" href="mailto:HOT@openstreetmap.org">HOT@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot</a><br><br><br></div> </blockquote> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>