[Talk-ht] Help Managing Mapping Requests

[Jerry Clough - OSM]

It's great to have a Haiti dedicated list: I think it will help enormously in clarifying what needs to be done, what has been done and what is being done.

First off,  I think the area which needs most urgent attention is http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/New_Mapper. In particular the first two tasks have now reached a stage where new mappers may find it hard to make a constructive impact.

The Sahana hospitals list was imported a couple of days ago by Michael Schulze in a series of changesets (e.g., 3707325). I think there is plenty of checking which can be done, but the task as described is now complete.

Port-au-Prince street names. Since early this week several of us have been checking street names against the DMA maps, and have now reduced the outstanding unresolved names to just over 100. The task is becoming increasingly involved and, I think, now requires a good OSM background. Once again cross-checking that names have not accidentally been entered in incorrect locations is needed (a common problem because 6 and 8 were easily confused on the map scans). Many names could be improved by restoring missing accents. 

Level 3 administrative boundaries (pcode level3) have been imported for the main areas affected by the 'quake (all of Sud-Est and most of Ouest departments). I have refrained from adding the others for now because processing data imported from shape files is still manually intensive and very prone to break things which already work. I do not know if pcode:3 tags have been set for minor places (hamlets, villages and localities). However, if this would be regarded as useful the data can be loaded quite quickly: although EdLoach won't thank me for it.

Cemeteries, graveyards etc. I miss any idea on the status of mapping cemeteries, and note that the placename Titanyen where many news media have reported the location of mass graves is missing from OSM.

Just my two penn'orth,

Jerry
SK53 on OSM



      
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