[OSM-talk] Fw: [CrisisMappers] Haiti PCodes

[Margie Roswell]

somebody replaced my header with:
"NO NEW COLUMNS PLEASE: We have no use for this data"

I can't imagine that that's the case. I'm disappointed to have data
removed. I understand if quality code data can't be used, possibly, in
OSM. But somewhere, there should be a record of whether something is
located to within a precise address, to a village centroid, or within
a km of a town.

Darn, really  disappointed


I'm not even sure to whom I should direct this issue?

Who was the person who took out the header, complete with
descriptions of (what I think are really reasonable) codes 1-4?

Anyhow, I'm feeling deflated. I thought I was providing a really
valuable service, and now, given that I don't know the location of the
hospitals, and have generally been finding village and town centroids,
it feels like really bad data, especially minus a quality code.

My original description for the new column said:
Quality code
1=precise geocode
2=nearby
3=village, within 0.3 km
4=town, within 1km


Margie, working on
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Aoyf-OlHreuhdDBkSWJ2d1FtMkpkTzZrV1B4dDlKREE&hl=en


On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Margie Roswell <mroswell at gmail.com> wrote:
> I added a quality code to:
> http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Aoyf-OlHreuhdDBkSWJ2d1FtMkpkTzZrV1B4dDlKREE&hl=en
> 1=precise; 2=nearby; 3=approx village centroid
>
> Is there a way to implement that in OSM? (so that people will know
> whether they're getting approximate location?)
>
> Margie
>
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:23 AM, David Groom <reviews at pacific-rim.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Frederik Ramm" <frederik at remote.org>
>> To: "David Groom" <reviews at pacific-rim.net>
>> Cc: "Adrian Brain" <adrianpbrain at yahoo.co.uk>; <talk at openstreetmap.org>
>> Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 2:02 PM
>> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Fw: [CrisisMappers] Haiti PCodes
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> David Groom wrote:
>>>> I have attached tags for the majority of pcode level 2 already to towns
>>>> and villages, using the pcode:2 tags as  suggested on
>>>>
>>>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Tags#Emergency_Response_.26_Relief_Support_Infrastructure
>>>>  I believe that the pcode2 should probably refer to an administrative
>>>> district rather than a place, but it would have been more time consuming
>>>> in the first instance to break up the current admin boundaries and create
>>>> relations to make smaller boundaries at the pcode:2 level.  Its probably
>>>> a task for later.
>>>
>>> Should I include the p-code tag(s) in the place layer in the shapefiles on
>>> labs.geofabrik.de/haiti?
>>>
>>
>> This afternnon a lot of work has now gone in to creating better level 8
>> aadmin boundaries and adding P-Coide data to the admin boundaries relations.
>> Not all are complete yet, but a large number are.
>>
>> Is it possible for you to produce an admin boundaries layer and add it to
>> the shapefile zip?
>>
>>
>>
>> David
>>> Bye
>>> Frederik
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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