[Imports] Uganda Bureau of Statistics educational facilities import

Rafael Avila Coya ravilacoya at gmail.com
Sat Jan 2 19:29:12 UTC 2016


I forgot to add the link #3 in my last email.

So [3] https://www.dropbox.com/s/5j82arhhf0bif4h/ubosEdu_final.osm?dl=0

On 02/01/16 20:20, Rafael Avila Coya wrote:
> Hi, Paul:
> 
> Thanks for your comments:
> 
> On 30/12/15 05:00, Paul Norman wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 12/29/2015 4:15 PM, Rafael Avila Coya wrote:
>>>>> The import has been communicated to the Uganda OSM community, and is
>>>>> being submitted here for final validation by the wider OSM community.
>>>> Can you provide a link to the Ugandan discussion? It's also wrong to
>>>> refer to this as a final validation - it's discussion just like needed
>>>> to be done with the Ugandan community, and neither is more a final
>>>> validation than the other.
>>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ug/2015-December/000069.html
>>>
>>>
>>> I just follow the imports guidelines.
>>
>> But my point is that this isn't a final validation, it's a consultation
>> with the community, just as with talk-ug.
>>
>> Since talk-ug@ is a very quiet list, is there anywhere else the Ugandan
>> community uses to talk? e.g. forums, a group elsewhere, FB, etc. With no
>> response to the talk-ug@ message, it's hard to know if the locals want
>> this or not.
>>
> A user from the Uganda community has shown up already. I guess more will
> join.
> 
> The Talk-ug is not that quiet. But imports is a complex enough matter to
> draw less comments than usual.
> 
> I'll do my best to involve the maximum people from the Uganda community
> as possble. Jo's idea of trying to contact schools looks nice, although
> quite complex to do.
>>
>>>> Looking at the suggested changeset comment, you should not mandate a
>>>> particular comment, but have users use a good changeset comment[1]. 
>>> I agree completely. Thank you. I will add that to the workflow wiki.
>>
>> Don't forget the Import_Uganda_Bureau_Of_Statistics_Education_Facilities
>> page too.
> 
> True. That's corrected in both wikis.
> 
>>
>>>> You've also listed the source tag twice.
>>> If you mean that source and source:date are both in the nodes and the
>>> changeset, it's true.
>>
>> No, you're requiring people to use two source tags on the changeset,
>> which is impossible.
> 
> A small mistake. The second one was source:date. Corrected.
> 
>>
>>>> Past experience has shown that importing with a fixme doesn't work. They
>>>> don't generally get fixed.
>>> The fixme tag would affect an small subset of those 24,000+ nodes.
>>
>> How large a subset? Also, it doesn't really address what I raised.
> 
> From a ramdom check of 100 nodes that I did, it would be kind of 10%. It
> normally affects nurseries.
> 
>>
>>>> The workflow mentions abbreviations. Are these common enough to be worth
>>>> expanding in the conversion script?
>>> Yes. They are indeed very common. I will add the most complete set of
>>> abbreviations to the final script so users will find as few as possible
>>> of those abbreviations. Being 24,000+ nodes, it's really difficult to
>>> correct all of them.
>>
>> What  kind of portion will be left?
> 
> The number of total nodes is 24,587
> 
> After abbreviating with the transformation script [1], there are only
> 10,062 nodes unchanged. So that means it corrects the abbreviations of
> 14,525 nodes the total set.
> 
> With that new .osm, I opened it in JOSM, and checked 200 ramdom nodes of
> the "new" 24,587. I got 20 of them (10% of the total) that needed to be
> corrected their abbreviations. That means that around 2,459 nodes would
> be left for the users to correct manually. The Tasking Manager project
> will be divided in 607 tasks. That means an average of 40 nodes to be
> imported per task. So every user would have to correct only 4 nodes per
> task, average.
> 
> The script corrects automatically 85.5% of the abbreviations, while the
> users are left to correct the remaining 14.5% of all the nodes with
> abbreviations (10% of the total nodes).
> 
> You can check easily the abbreviations that the script corrects in this
> txt file [2].
> 
> Hope this answer this question.
> 
> To finish, in case you don't want to run the script, you can check the
> final .osm file here [3]
> 
> [1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/y343ye75p49rerp/transformUgandaEdu.awk?dl=0
> [2]
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/ssbdk7dcru22sif/abbreviationsUgandaEdu.txt?dl=0
> [3]
> 
> 
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