The decision to use the import=yes tag wasn't mine nor that of other experienced Thailand mappers. The Facebook crew "invented" this use, for whatever internal reason(s)of their own and we local mappers simply went along with it because we were desperate for a method with which to check their work.
On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 4:25 PM Joseph Eisenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Dave. > > Re: > "Having that tag allows us to easily locate and check the > validity of their work. > > ... After we check the work, we remove the import tag." > > This usage would be incompatible with what I was told about Indonesia: > if they want to use this tag to find how many roads they added, they > probably don't want me to remove it. > > Even for your use-case in Thailand, I think it would be better to use > a different tag, like "computer_vision_assisted" for the facebook > stuff, or something else more specific, since "import=yes" should mean > that the data came from an external source, rather than from on of our > usually sources aerial imagery. > > Joseph > > On 8/10/19, Dave Swarthout <[email protected]> wrote: > > The reason those objects (mostly highways) are tagged that way in > Thailand, > > at least, is because much of the mapping done by the Facebook and Grab > > teams was rather poorly executed. Having that tag allows us to easily > > locate and check the validity of their work. One of the regular Thailand > > contributors developed a Map Paint Style that outlines all highways > tagged > > with import=yes in JOSM. After we check the work, we remove the import > tag. > > > > I think this is a valid use for the tag, and it's not meant to be a > > permanent tag in any case. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Dave > > > > On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 9:49 AM Paul Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 9 Aug 2019 at 15:23, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> f.s.v.o. "simple", a relatively foolproof method on a Linux machine is > >>> > >>> 1. download indonesia history pbf, > >>> 2. run osmium command line tool to convert into ASCII "opl" format, > >>> 3. grep how many ways with highway=* and v=1 are mapped by their team. > >>> > >> > >> You omitted step 0: install osmium. > >> > >> And possibly step -1: figure out how to compile and install osmium > >> because > >> it's not > >> available as a package for the distro you're using. > >> > >> Yeah, both of those steps ought to be obvious to Linux users. But if > >> somebody > >> puts a Linux distro on an old computer specifically just for this then > >> those are things > >> they need to be aware of. Osmium isn't a standard part of Linux and > it's > >> not available > >> pre-packaged for all distros. > >> > >> -- > >> Paul > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Tagging mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >> > > > > > > -- > > Dave Swarthout > > Homer, Alaska > > Chiang Mai, Thailand > > Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com > > > -- Dave Swarthout Homer, Alaska Chiang Mai, Thailand Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
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