[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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