[OSM-talk-cm] Road network improvements in Cameroon

[Willy MANGA]

Hi,

Le 31/05/2018 à 14:51, john whelan a écrit :
> I'm not local but I have been cleaning up in Cameroon and other African
> countries.  The biggest problem I can see in Cameroon is highways marked
> source "MINTP CTIN - Référentiel Routier du Cameroun 2014" etc. or
> operator=Commune which do not align with Bing and other imagery.  Sometimes
> you can guess which highway they are supposed to be sometimes not.

Maybe find ways to get in touch with people who have these data. The big
issue will be to find the *right* people :) .



> There are some long tracks sometimes connecting settlements marked
> forestry.  Fine except they do not follow the guidelines in
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa where highways that
> connect settlements should be unclassified, path etc. anything except
> track.  Again a number of these are tagged operator=Commune so it looks
> like an import.

I think it should be an import from data coming from a ministry and
national institute of statictics.

I knew they were an association in Yaounde some years ago mainly
sponsored by a french company who has done lot of work on the ground.

Besides keep in touch with some schools on geomatic in Douala or
Ngaoundere can be useful. Instead of providing data to google maps, they
could provide it to OSM . I will try to suggest it to one professor.

On a personal level I use to contribute sometimes, when it's possible
but I'm just an amateur :)


-- 
Willy Manga
@ongolaboy
https://ongola.blogspot.com/

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