[Imports] UPLOADING U-WIMP project data to osm

[Stellamaris Nakacwa]

So, how do we label the results of our results that gave us the
significance of this tag sequence?

I am really curious and I would love to know how best we can work around
it.

Thank you!

Stellamaris

On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 8:36 PM Mike Thompson <miketho16 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 6:19 PM Stellamaris Nakacwa <sn00013 at mix.wvu.edu>
> wrote:
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>> Hello Phil,
>>
>> We were able to make a thorough assessment of the key/value pair of all
>> water tags, based on granularity,  compliance, consistency and completeness
>> (temporal and spatial coverage) and what is written in my osm wiki is the
>> most significant outcome of the assessment. --a snippet is attached too.
>> Also, I personally believe that uploading data to osm (esp. for  LIC)
>> should not just be for the sake of uploads but to make real data
>> contributions that those governing institutions and interested parties can
>> rely on to make desired planning progress. In verbatim, I believe that all
>> infrastructure is man-made. That is why for springs, we only mapped ones
>> that have been well-built and cared for.
>>
> Regardless if a spring is tagged natural=spring, the name=* tag is only
> for the name of the feature, not for descriptive information. Also, the
> name tag is not a way to cause the renderer to create a desired label that
> would otherwise not appear, that is tagging for the renderer.
>
> However, regarding springs, in my opinion, springs are inherently
> natural.  If there is human made infrastructure associated with the spring,
> separate tags should be found for that infrastructure, or perhaps it should
> be mapped separately.  Take the example of a lake where humans have
> extensively modified the shoreline, we still tag the lake as natural=water.
>
> Mike
>
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