[Imports] Uganda Bureau of Statistics educational facilities import
Rafael Avila Coya
ravilacoya at gmail.com
Sun Jan 24 00:38:36 UTC 2016
Hi, Enock:
I have already imported hundreds of nodes, and found only one duplicate.
In case of duplicates, it's quite clear: just merge them in one. If the
names are similar, like in your example, I would put one of the names as
alt_name.
Cheers,
Rafael.
On 23/01/16 22:54, Enock Seth Nyamador 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 <http://enockseth.github.io/>
>
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 9:32 PM, Jo <winfixit at gmail.com
> <mailto: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
> <mailto: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 <http://enockseth.github.io/>
>
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 3:50 AM, Rafael Avila Coya
> <ravilacoya at gmail.com <mailto: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>
> > <mailto: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>
> > <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>>
> > > <mailto: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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