[Imports] Fwd: A lot of nodes imported from GEOnet Names Server (GNS ) were deleted in Yemen, KSA, Egypt Iraq and other countries

[عبدالله عبدالرحمن]

From: عبدالله عبدالرحمن <abdullahOSM at outlook.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 4, 2022 4:57 PM
To: Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>
Subject: Re: [Imports] Fwd: A lot of nodes imported from GEOnet Names Server (GNS ) were deleted in Yemen, KSA, Egypt Iraq and other countries

Hello,
The removed places in Saudi Arabia are real and identical to reality, not random or incorrect data, and the deleted GNS points from Saudi Arabia (approximately 10,740 points) are mostly:
- Populated places (linked to demographic information by Saeed) and uninhabited places (locality), which are many in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman and Syria, because it is mostly desert land.
Natural places such as mountains, plains, places of water, valleys and waterways (which are very useful and have been useful in drawing waterways for some regions of Saudi Arabia, and work is underway on the rest of the regions) and other natural places.
- Some wells, which are one of the most important features of the map for us in the desert!

Also, the GNS points were previously uploaded by Metehyi and updated by Saeed Habishan, and many of them have been corrected and the incorrect ones have been deleted. The notes are on them and can be fixed with the fixme tag and map notes, so we kindly ask you to reverse this procedure because it takes us back a lot.

Regards
Abdullah Abdulrahman

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From: Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 4, 2022 2:23 PM
To: imports <imports at openstreetmap.org>
Subject: [Imports] Fwd: A lot of nodes imported from GEOnet Names Server (GNS ) were deleted in Yemen, KSA, Egypt Iraq and other countries

apologies, forgot to Cc the list


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Subject: Re: [Imports] A lot of nodes imported from GEOnet Names Server
(GNS ) were deleted in Yemen, KSA, Egypt Iraq and other countries
Date: Wed, 4 May 2022 12:25:12 +0200
From: Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>
To: Saeed Hubaishan <hubaishan at outlook.sa>

Hi,

On 04.05.22 10:47, Saeed Hubaishan wrote:
> There were a lot of nodes deleted by the same comment:

That was me! I had analysed the data and found that while many had been
modified after the import, modifications were usually just automated
edits themselves, leaving the nodes at the exact (wrong) position and
just removing some is_in tag or copying one name tag into another or so.
If manual work was indeed applied in Yemen, I'll happily revert the
deletion. I will have a look at this later today.

The main reason for the deletion was that a random sample of nodes
created by that importer showed them to be in crudely wrong locations
(villages and towns where there was clearly no settlement on aerial
imagery), and the importer was unreachable for comment.

Bye
Frederik

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