<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium">Ukundji</span><br><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium">Thank you for you comments, yes Ethiopia needs to have an OSM restart.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium">For the last 10 months I was living in SNNPR and was not able to meet a single OSM contributor.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium">The infrastructure, unfortunately, makes OSM contributions and even use very difficult.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium">Ethiopians would be very interested in getting OSMAnd on their phones, however, it appears to be a restricted app.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium">In terms of paths to Ethiopian villages it is indeed the case that the primary or only transportation route to a population may only be by foot or donkey traffic on a path.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium">I think the perception that a path is not important is quite common and is not true. Important or significant paths need to be mapped for commerce, food safety, and potential relief efforts, not only in Ethiopia but in other parts of Africa and places throughout the world.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium">The discussion about <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_Features/Importance">importance</a> doesn't seem to have moved forward but could have some value.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium"><br></span></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">At SOTM Africa earlier this month there was quite a bit of discussion on highway tags, including paths. Based on that discussion I have updated the <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa">Africa Highway Tagging guide</a> to help clarify that a road has not only a construction class as well as an economic or social function.</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">Regards</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">Emmor</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">(<a href="http://hdyc.neis-one.org/?Palolo">Palolo</a>) </font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Jens Mueller (Historical Research Services) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hrs@hist.de" target="_blank">hrs@hist.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Hi!</div>
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<div>I hope that you do not mind if I “jump into” your interesting and very
important discussion.</div>
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<div>I have had problems with the defintion of “unclassified roads” and
“paths”.</div>
<div>Based on your defintion any roads which are not accessable by 4x4 wheel
cars should be tagged as “path” (or as “tracks” if they only connect to
agricultural places), even if they are the only roads which connect settlements.
Is this correct?</div>
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<div>Please take a short look (if you do not mind and have the time to do so) at
a “OSM forum” discussion two years ago.</div>
<div>I mapped in Ethiopia mainly oin the municipality of “Yemezegn”.</div>
<div>There are several roads of different sizes there, as decribed in my
posting.</div>
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<div>A native Ethiopian did in-depth research in that area for his master thesis
and stated:</div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman">“According to the observation data, two
Kebeles namely Yemezegn and Gibtsawit are inaccessable by vehicles and hence, do
not have easy access to public transport.”</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman">And it seems as if he meant inaccesable by all
(normal, including 4x4) vehicles.</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman">If this is indeed true, should all roads be
tagged as paths?</font></div>
<div><a title="https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=54917" href="https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=54917" target="_blank">https://forum.openstreetmap.<wbr>org/viewtopic.php?id=54917</a></div>
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<div><font size="3" face="Calibri">Any help and ideas would be greatly appreciated
after this would help me a lot for other mapping projects in Ethiopia and DR
Congo (near the Lake Tanganyika, where a lot of settlements only have access by
vehicles via the Lake).</font></div>
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<div><font size="3" face="Calibri">Thank you.</font></div>
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<div><font size="3" face="Calibri">Kind Regards,</font></div>
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<div><font size="3" face="Calibri">Ukundji</font></div>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="jwhelan0112@gmail.com" href="mailto:jwhelan0112@gmail.com" target="_blank">john whelan</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, July 29, 2017 1:38 AM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a title="hot@openstreetmap.org" href="mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">hot@openstreetmap.org</a> </div>
<div><b>Subject:</b> [HOT] Highway Tag Africa wiki</div></div></div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="FONT-SIZE:small;FONT-FAMILY:verdana,sans-serif">I seem to recall some
one posting recently that following discussion at the SOTM Africa in Uganda 2017
some changes had been made to the wiki.<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="FONT-SIZE:small;FONT-FAMILY:verdana,sans-serif">Could some one
highlight these. <br><br>Thanks John<br></div></div>
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