[Talk-africa] Invalid place values in Cameroon

[Derrick Demeveng]

Dear Willy, I hope this email finds you well and merry xmas.

Thanks for forwarding this email. Action shall be taken accordingly.

Kind regards

Derrick

On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 4:08 PM Willy Franck Sob <willyfrancksob at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> 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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