[Tagging] camp sites in Haiti

Mateusz Konieczny matkoniecz at tutanota.com
Wed Oct 12 12:05:44 UTC 2022


I think that retagging confirmed to be existing refugee sites and
deleting clearly invalid data would be better than turning it into more camouflaged
suspect data.

Oct 12, 2022, 11:59 by annekadistel at web.de:

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> I left 3 fixmes, even tried one in French, just in case.
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> Anne
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> On 12/10/2022 10:51, Illia Marchenko      wrote:
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>> I think that amenity=refugee_site & fixme=Review may be          solution, it isn't the ideal, but are better then leave "as          is". 
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>> ср, 12 окт. 2022 г., 11:54              Warin <>> 61sundowner at gmail.com>> >:
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>>> On 12/10/22 02:05, Joseph Eisenberg wrote:
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>>>> >                      Would it be possible to re-tag those refugee camps                      i>>>> n an                      automated edit? … I'm not even sure >>>> if                      they all still exist 12 years later.
>>>>
>>>> It                      would not be possible, because we do not know if                      they still exist. 
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>>> So you leave them with an incorrect tag? 
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>>> I'd re-tag them.. but only after looking at imagery                  to see if they are refugee sites. 
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>>> And I'd try to find the most upto date imagery to                  confirm there existence .. 
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>>>> However                      a local mapper or someone who has visited the area                      could re-tag them, after confirming that they                      still exist and are in fact refugee sites
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>>> A local mapper or visitor can also confirm or delete                  them after they have been retagged by a remote mapper. 
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>>> And after 212 years of inactivity the change may                  prompt a local to think about these sites. 
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>>>>
>>>> -Joseph                      Eisenberg 
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Oct 11,                        2022 at 4:20 AM Anne-Karoline Distel <>>>> annekadistel at web.de>>>> >                        wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>  
>>>>>  I noticed that many of the refugee camps in                        Haiti are tagged as
>>>>>  tourism=camp_site which made me uneasy. Turns                        out there is the tag
>>>>>  amenity=refugee_site. Would it be possible to                        re-tag those refugee camps
>>>>>  in an automated edit? There are about 60 or 70                        mapped. I'm not even sure
>>>>>  if they all still exist 12 years later.
>>>>>  
>>>>>  Anne
>>>>>  
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