[Talk-ht] Help Managing Mapping Requests

[Brad Neuhauser]

That brings up a question I've had during this project but never seen
an answer to:  how do you include accented characters?  Thanks, Brad


>
> 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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