[Imports] Uganda Bureau of Statistics educational facilities import
Enock Seth Nyamador
kwadzo459 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 23 22:04:50 UTC 2016
Here is a screenshot [1] I made from my current task with related names and
duplicate nodes.
1. https://goo.gl/L7DP5m
Best,
- Enock
UMaT, Tarkwa
enockseth.github.io
On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 9:54 PM, Enock Seth Nyamador <kwadzo459 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Jo,
>
> That sounds like a clue though but sometimes there could be more than one
> Primary/Secondary schools in same village/parish and other way - duplicates
> (as in my current task with 2 nodes each with same names). Adding the
> parish/village as an integral part of name could conflict with an existing
> feature name.
>
> Best,
>
> - Enock
> UMaT, Tarkwa
> enockseth.github.io
>
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 9:32 PM, Jo <winfixit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Enock,
>>
>> Went to a Missing Maps event this afternoon and was a bit pressed for
>> time when I answered. When you drop Primary/Secondary school from those
>> names, all that's left is the name of the village/parish. That's not the
>> name of the school either, so I'd say it's an integral part of the name
>> after all.
>>
>> Jo
>>
>> 2016-01-23 13:08 GMT+01:00 Enock Seth Nyamador <kwadzo459 at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Just a quick one.
>>>
>>> Came across some schools with names; Primary School and Secondary
>>> School. This aren't names.
>>>
>>> What is best to do, just delete those tags? I would have removed them,
>>> If I was mapping personally. But as this an import, haven't seen anything
>>> related to it on the Wiki.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> - Enock
>>> UMaT, Tarkwa
>>> enockseth.github.io
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 3:50 AM, Rafael Avila Coya <ravilacoya at gmail.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, Jo:
>>>>
>>>> Yes. It happens many times. As I said, it would be very nice to have a
>>>> JOSM plugin that would address switching between a list of user
>>>> accounts. My vision would be of a simple plugin that would allow to:
>>>>
>>>> 1) Create a list of user accounts, instead of having only place for one,
>>>> as it is with the JOSM standard Preferences.
>>>>
>>>> 2) Easy button in the tools bar to switch between user accounts.
>>>>
>>>> 3) A checkbox to decide if you want JOSM to warn you what's the user you
>>>> are using when uploading the data to OSM. That means: you hit the upload
>>>> button, and as a final step, JOSM tells you: you are uploading with
>>>> Polyglot OSM user account. Accept? (and the typical "cancel" and "Ok"
>>>> buttons).
>>>>
>>>> You have contributed lots of comments and great ideas, so I am not going
>>>> to pressure you with contributing more. Anyway, although it's a bit of a
>>>> nuissance, you will get used after a while. Many of us have done this
>>>> since about 3 years ago for lots of manual imports! And, if you get a
>>>> task with say 15 schools (I did yesterday one with 147!), the time you
>>>> spend switching between user accounts is less than 1% of the total.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Rafael.
>>>>
>>>> On 22/01/16 22:17, Jo wrote:
>>>> > I tried to use my import account. Failed to do it. The stuff that
>>>> should
>>>> > have been uploaded with it, went up with my normal account. The
>>>> > subsequent non import stuff went up with my import account.
>>>> >
>>>> > It's too much of a hassle and yes I would need to switch back and
>>>> forth
>>>> > between accounts constantly.
>>>> >
>>>> > So, I'll limit myself to doing validation work, until this silly rule
>>>> > gets finally lifted some day. I won't be holding my breath, no
>>>> worries.
>>>> >
>>>> > Polyglot
>>>> >
>>>> > 2016-01-07 16:44 GMT+01:00 Rafael Avila Coya <ravilacoya at gmail.com
>>>> > <mailto:ravilacoya at gmail.com>>:
>>>> >
>>>> > Hi, Enock:
>>>> >
>>>> > Thank you for volunteering!
>>>> >
>>>> > Yes, Geoffrey has given his opinions already, and he offered
>>>> something
>>>> > very key here: help from the local OSM community.
>>>> >
>>>> > As I guess there are quite a number of active members in Kampala
>>>> (for
>>>> > example), it could be of unvaluable help for double checking on
>>>> the
>>>> > ground the facilities inside the city, as those are the mainly
>>>> the only
>>>> > ones hard to spot from imagery.
>>>> >
>>>> > Cheers,
>>>> >
>>>> > Rafael.
>>>> >
>>>> > On 04/01/16 15:42, Enock Seth Nyamador wrote:
>>>> > > Hi,
>>>> > >
>>>> > > Very long discussion here. Glad I was able to follow. I've
>>>> copied
>>>> > > Ugandan OSMer Geoffrey of Mapping Day Uganda[1] guess you might
>>>> be
>>>> > > interested in this.
>>>> > >
>>>> > > Am interested in volunteering for this import.
>>>> > >
>>>> > > Best,
>>>> > >
>>>> > > 1. http://www.mappingday.com
>>>> > >
>>>> > > - Enock
>>>> > > UMaT, Tarkwa
>>>> > > enockseth.github.io <http://enockseth.github.io>
>>>> > <http://enockseth.github.io/>
>>>> > >
>>>> > > On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 9:42 AM, Jo <winfixit at gmail.com <mailto:
>>>> winfixit at gmail.com>
>>>> > > <mailto:winfixit at gmail.com <mailto:winfixit at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>>>> > >
>>>> > > Doing what I did in these 2 edits:
>>>> > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3925002632/history
>>>> > >
>>>> > > would make the import a whole lot slower, as it would
>>>> entail a lot
>>>> > > more research (and fiddling with Wikidata), but it would
>>>> also make
>>>> > > the data even more useful.
>>>> > >
>>>> > > If it were me, I'd add Wikidata items for each of these
>>>> schools. I
>>>> > > can write a script that would make the process easier. I'm
>>>> not sure
>>>> > > about license issues though. If I drag a node over Bing
>>>> imagery and
>>>> > > upload it to Openstreetmap. Can I use those coordinates on
>>>> Wikidata
>>>> > > if I mention the source properly? Or are they already ODBL
>>>> and
>>>> > > therefore incompatible. That would be really annoying. It
>>>> would mean
>>>> > > I have to make sure to add the coordinates to Wikidata
>>>> first, and
>>>> > > only after doing that upload to Openstreetmap, but I want
>>>> to mention
>>>> > > the source on Wikidata, so I need a reference url to the
>>>> OSM object...
>>>> > >
>>>> > > I think, at least for the schools with WP articles, it
>>>> makes sense
>>>> > > to do this. For the others I think it makes sense as well,
>>>> but it's
>>>> > > a lot more work. They would all get identifiers that way,
>>>> which may
>>>> > > make later conflation easier.
>>>> > >
>>>> > > Jo
>>>> > >
>>>> > >
>>>> > >
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