neavilag
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6 years ago Awesome, and live in Guatemala, I can help in validate, provide guidance with the updates, best regards.
Open awisemanapple opened 6 years ago
neavilag
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6 years ago Awesome, and live in Guatemala, I can help in validate, provide guidance with the updates, best regards.
awisemanapple
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6 years ago @neavilag thank you! Do you have suggestions for places you know there are problems, or common types of problems?
GEOtemala
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6 years ago Hello Andrew. I also wrote to your apple email account, and wondered why you had not written back. I guess I wrote to the wrong place!
Hello Andrew.
I am Jorge. I am from and live in Guatemala. I have been editing OSM since 2015 and have had the chance to travel and map several countries in Central and South America, as well as edited some in the Middle East and other places around the world.
You can see mundo OSM stats at http://www.hdyc.neis-one.org/?JAAS and my heat map http://yosmhm.neis-one.org/?JAAS
I saw your post in both Talk-ar and Talk-co and found you have interest in working Guatemala, so I am writing you to find out more of what you are doing and how we could get more done in the region.
Hope to hear from you soon!
On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 4:45 PM Andrew Wiseman notifications@github.com wrote:
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awisemanapple
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6 years ago @GEOtemala thanks for the note! I'll message you directly if we have any questions.
Task Description
This task outlines work to improve OSM data in Guatemala, such as the road network, coastlines and inland water, and land use and land cover polygons -- remove duplicates, correct geometry, fix incorrect tags and other similar things.
Improvements that will be addressed include the following:
Mapping Guidelines
The team will follow OSM and local policy, along with any other guidelines as appropriate.
For water and coastlines, the team will follow OSM coastline guidelines, waterways policy such as water and natural=water and local policy along with any other policy as appropriate.
Some coastlines are connected to administrative boundaries, in which case we will adjust both if appropriate.
Where we see them, we will remove the
source=PGStag, which was from an earlier coastline import that needs to be cleaned up. We received a message on the India coastlines project requesting this, and it is commonly done in other coastline improvement edits.The team will use the imagery and data sources specified below for mapping in the country.
When in doubt, the team will use the existing tags and data which are used locally. The history in JOSM (ctrl-H) identifies what previous mappers added and their notes and/or explanations regarding changes made. This history can also show if a previous mapper has visited that area or has expert knowledge or sources.
We have also messaged OSM Guatemala Telegram to get feedback and suggestions about the project.
Our team uses the hashtag #adt (for Apple Data Team) for our edits.
Area of Focus
Throughout Guatemala.
Tools
The team will use JOSM for completing the task. JOSM has validation warnings for road networks and other possible issues that are important to prevent improper changes.
Sources
The team will apply image offsets as needed.
Changeset Comments
The team will provide changeset comments that are in compliance with OSM changeset guidelines.
Error Detection
The team will check for errors visually and using JOSM validation warnings prior to committing the changeset.
In addition, the team will review its work in accordance with validation guidelines such as the OSM Wiki and LearnOSM validation guidelines
How can you help
We have posted a number of MapRoulette challenges related to issues with the road network.
Contributors
For more information
Our community lead is Teddy Ahlvin and our editing leads are Jon Westlake and Erica Olson. To get in touch with Teddy, you can email or contact him via OSM. All of our leads can be reached via email.
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