[Tagging] Tagging data where position is not yet known

[Simon Poole]

Not quie sure why this is on tagging, but anyway: a clear yes to adding
the data. Add a FIXME tag stating that it is a rough, village level
position for late surveyors and consumers.

Naturally you might simply be able to sit down with the contributors and
squint at aerial imagery to locate the objects post survey, given that
we slowly have a large selection of global imagery that we can use.

Simon

Am 03.09.2017 um 23:35 schrieb ralph.aytoun at ntlworld.com:
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> Hi all,
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> I am looking for comments and advice regarding this.
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> I am working with a group of local mappers in Sierra Leone, Africa,
> under the name WAMM (West Africa Motorbike Mappers). They are trying
> to find and identify all the towns, villages, hamlets in Sierra Leone
> and have completed one whole District (Kailahun) and are well into
> their second District (Kenema). At each community they take a GPS
> reading to fix where they are (lat and long supplied) and then ask
> prominent locals (chief/headman/etc) for the name, historical name,
> any alternate names. They have also supplied other important data for
> the community such as the existence of a market and which days it is
> open, also the existence of a water pump. Unfortunately, while they
> have confirmed the existence of the latter two they have not
> identified their position.
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> The names of towns and villages were originally added in 2014 first by
> *rwst* with /source=GNS/ and /gns_ufi=* /and in 2014 by Pierzen_import
> adding Sierra Leone place nodes and Unocha pcodes.
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> WAMM have supplied a spreadsheet with the data collected and want to
> know if it can be added to OpenStreetMap. There are a lot of new names
> of smaller communities and confirmation of the names that the locals
> call their communities. This is not a problem and can be checked
> against the existing data already on OpenStreetMap.
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> I want to know how you feel about adding the market and water_pump
> data that does not yet exist on the map. In Africa the existence of a
> market and/or a water_pump is not only important information for the
> locals, it is important information for any medical or humanitarian
> teams carrying out any assessment or intervention in the area. I wish
> to add this data to the map near the name of the community with a
> fixme stating that the existence has been confirmed but the location
> is not yet known. The fact that it is there will be spotted by
> subsequent mappers and hopefully they will be able to move it to it’s
> correct location.
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> Look forward to hearing from you.
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> Regards
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> Ralph (RAytoun)
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