To improve the map quality in Zimbabwe, we propose to make data improvements by sharing challenges, and when appropriate, fixing data errors, and adding or editing certain kinds of geometry.
How to participate
Anyone is welcome to contribute to this project by participating in our MapRoulette challenges. Here is the extended documentation for using MR. Note that sometimes additional instructions are provided within the challenges.
Challenges
Quality check challenges
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- [Not connected highway](https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/19611)
Ways with tag highway=* must be connected to the rest of the road network to ensure its continuity, e.g. for route planning. When such a way is not connected to another way with tag highway=*, an error is logged.
- [Tag area=yes on object without feature type](https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/19612)
The area=yes tag is required for some closed ways when used to define a polygon. For closed ways with other tags, there is an assumption that the way defines an area. In some circumstances, a closed way may define both a closed polyline and an area. When tag area=yes is used, it is expected that one of the necessary accompanying tags is also found.
- [Impossible angle in a highway](https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/19615)
In general, roads intended for vehicles should be built to maintain proper angles which ensure maneuvers and fluent traffic. Extreme, too sharp angles applied to a way may indicate errors in the road geometry.
- [Spiky buildings](https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/19616)
Buildings with extremely sharp angles will be identified and corrected if needed.
- [Polygon is not closed](https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/19609)
Features intended to be a polygon should be correctly tagged. When the tag indicates that the object should be a polygon, but the geometry is built out of a NON-closed way, an error is logged.
Geometry challenges
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- [Missing Roads](https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/21827) (regional challenge for Eastern Africa)
- [Missing Highways](https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/38501)
Data analysis done by TomTom suggests that there should be a road or track here in OSM, but it is missing.
- [Isolated Roads](https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/38502)
Leads are generated based on analysis of road classes and their connection to the rest of the road network. the goal is to connect the hanging roads to the nearest road network based on the available imagery and/or probe sources.
Geographical scope
Data improvements will be made across the whole country.
In the WhatsApp Group of OSM Africa, March 22th 2023.
TomTom organised editing
We will follow the Organised Editing Guidelines for this project. TomTom will not make any edits until two weeks after the project announcement. Here is our Organised Editing page, including a list of our editors.
How to find TomTom's edits
All edits made by our team have the hashtag #tt or #tomtom.
Sources for editing
Maxar Premium Imagery
Esri World Imagery
Bing Maps Aerial
How to reach out
If you have remarks about a specific edit of ours, please drop a comment in the changeset, and we will do our best to respond thoughtfully. Or, you can also:
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Project description
Goal
To improve the map quality in Zimbabwe, we propose to make data improvements by sharing challenges, and when appropriate, fixing data errors, and adding or editing certain kinds of geometry.
How to participate
Anyone is welcome to contribute to this project by participating in our MapRoulette challenges. Here is the extended documentation for using MR. Note that sometimes additional instructions are provided within the challenges.
Challenges
Quality check challenges
Click to expand.
- [Not connected highway](https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/19611) Ways with tag highway=* must be connected to the rest of the road network to ensure its continuity, e.g. for route planning. When such a way is not connected to another way with tag highway=*, an error is logged. - [Tag area=yes on object without feature type](https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/19612) The area=yes tag is required for some closed ways when used to define a polygon. For closed ways with other tags, there is an assumption that the way defines an area. In some circumstances, a closed way may define both a closed polyline and an area. When tag area=yes is used, it is expected that one of the necessary accompanying tags is also found. - [Impossible angle in a highway](https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/19615) In general, roads intended for vehicles should be built to maintain proper angles which ensure maneuvers and fluent traffic. Extreme, too sharp angles applied to a way may indicate errors in the road geometry. - [Spiky buildings](https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/19616) Buildings with extremely sharp angles will be identified and corrected if needed. - [Polygon is not closed](https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/19609) Features intended to be a polygon should be correctly tagged. When the tag indicates that the object should be a polygon, but the geometry is built out of a NON-closed way, an error is logged.Geometry challenges
Click to expand.
- [Missing Roads](https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/21827) (regional challenge for Eastern Africa) - [Missing Highways](https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/38501) Data analysis done by TomTom suggests that there should be a road or track here in OSM, but it is missing. - [Isolated Roads](https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/38502) Leads are generated based on analysis of road classes and their connection to the rest of the road network. the goal is to connect the hanging roads to the nearest road network based on the available imagery and/or probe sources.Geographical scope
Data improvements will be made across the whole country.
Announcements
This project was announced in the Talk-africa mailing list:
TomTom organised editing
We will follow the Organised Editing Guidelines for this project. TomTom will not make any edits until two weeks after the project announcement. Here is our Organised Editing page, including a list of our editors.
How to find TomTom's edits
All edits made by our team have the hashtag #tt or #tomtom.
Sources for editing
How to reach out
If you have remarks about a specific edit of ours, please drop a comment in the changeset, and we will do our best to respond thoughtfully. Or, you can also: