[Imports] Uganda Bureau of Statistics educational facilities import
Jotam
jotam at posteo.de
Sun Jan 24 08:33:29 UTC 2016
Many schools in Uganda will follow exactly that name pattern: "VILLAGE NAME Primary School".
This is extremely common, especially in smaller places. So please don't delete "Primary / Secondary School" from the name tag as it is most likely an integral part of the name indeed.
Am 24. Januar 2016 03:38:36 EAT, schrieb Rafael Avila Coya <ravilacoya at gmail.com>:
>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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