[Talk-africa] Invalid place values in Cameroon

[Willy Franck Sob]

Thank you Ivan for raising these issues. We will look into it and see what
is going on.

Happy New Year

Willy


> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Ivan Ruggiero <ivanbrancosm at gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 1:52 PM
> Subject: [Talk-africa] Invalid place values in Cameroon
> To: <talk-africa at openstreetmap.org>
>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Enock from the "OSM Africa" Telegram group suggested me to post it also
> here, in the mailing list:
>
> I wanted to share with the local community a problem with tagging I found
> in Cameroon.
> I found more than 2000 nodes with incorrect place=* values, here the
> overpass query: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1euW
> It's 138 different invalid values.
>
> I don't feel comfortable deleting them because maybe there's some useful
> information, but 1. I don't have local knowledge 2. some values look like
> french words ("Rue gare marchandisse";"PETIT MARCHE";"CHAMP DE PRIERE") so
> maybe they can be "transformed" in other tags?
>
> I contacted the user at first but then I noticed he never replied to any
> changeset comment so far and also I discovered the invalid tags in Cameroon
> were many more than the ones I found initially.
>
> Ivan
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