[Imports] Uganda Bureau of Statistics educational facilities import
Rafael Avila Coya
ravilacoya at gmail.com
Tue Jan 26 21:16:32 UTC 2016
Hi, Enock:
>From contacting a representative of UBOS, both ("Private" and "Private
aided") mean the same (privately owned):
operator:type=private
Likewise for "Govt" and "Govt aided". They both translate as:
operator:type=public
Cheers,
Rafael.
On 26/01/16 21:27, Enock Seth Nyamador wrote:
> I've been adding using "operator:type"
>
> But there is one thing am still not sure of, is:
>
> Private and Private Aided = private?
> Government and Government Aided = government?
>
> Best
>
> - Enock
> UMaT, Tarkwa
> enockseth.github.io <http://enockseth.github.io/>
>
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Enock Seth Nyamador
> <kwadzo459 at gmail.com <mailto:kwadzo459 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Thanks Raphael and Jotam.
>
> Am very careful not to assume any condition and act in my own
> opinion. Will be back here or refer to workflow if there is any
> problem. Thanks.
>
> Best,
>
> - Enock
> UMaT, Tarkwa
> enockseth.github.io <http://enockseth.github.io/>
>
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 8:33 AM, Jotam <jotam at posteo.de
> <mailto:jotam at posteo.de>> wrote:
>
> 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 <mailto: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>
> <http://enockseth.github.io/>
>
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 9:32 PM, Jo <winfixit at gmail.com
> <mailto:winfixit at gmail.com>
> <mailto: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>
> <mailto: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>
> <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>
> <mailto: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>>
> <mailto: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>
>
> <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>>>
>
> <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
> <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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