[HOT] CAR, Lobaye
Hi there, I will spend next 2-3 months around "Lobaye" prefecture in Central African Republic (directly west of Bangui). During reconnaissance trip last week, already I did found some corrections (names, trails, missing bridges, etc.) and I am sure there´re more. I should be rather busy with our organization´s activities but I could be able to take GPS tracks and direct observations... so the question is: can I help ? and if so... how ? Note: I will have close to non existent internet connection during this while. Thanks for advises, Eti ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
[HOT] Request to those organising a maperthon.
If you notice that the project you're planning to use has an active validator please if possible give them some warning before your maperthon. Finding a dozen tiles suddenly mapped by new mappers can be wonderful but finding tiles marked done by a mapper who has not actually added anything when there are a dozen settlements unmapped on the first, then settlements but no highways at all on the second one examined does tend to dump on the validator. If there is a bit of prior warning sometimes additional resources can be found to validate. Secondly for new mappers please split the tiles as much as possible. That gives the validator a chance to correct the mappers before they repeat the errors too many times. So far on this particular project groups of buildings have been tagged building=residential rather than landuse=residential, then we have landuse=residential, great but with the additional tag of name=houses so be nice and verify your training guides are simple and clear to understand. Yes I know I'm supposed to be polite and say everything is wonderful, this is the very polite version the first five versions have been heavily censored. Many Thanks John ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
