Hi Martin, Good job spotting these settlements and tracks.
It is a good idea to tag the forests as they are part of the instructions. It is also asked that you map rivers and streams if you can find them. And I am fairly sure that all these patches of woodland are in fact covering such rivers and streams. Have a look from high above: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/4.4159/13.9064 All the best althio On 23 December 2014 at 11:18, m902 <m902....@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the comments. I agree that we can't be sure that these are just > animal shelters and so best to tag them as residential until someone can > check locally. > I'm tagging the tracks that link the groups of buildings with nearby > settlements and anything that looks wide enough for a wheeled vehicle and > ignoring the other paths. > Also tagging the woodland, since the tracks don't really make sense without > that context.. > All a bit tricky because of cloud cover! > Regards > Martin > > > > > On 23/12/2014 02:23, Blake Girardot wrote: >> >> I find the whole area to be remarkable and lovely in the aerial imagery. >> >> But specifically to althio's question about what makes someone think >> they are animal tracks: Animal tracks would not have been my first >> thought either, but once suggested I think some of the paths and >> tracks in the area started looking a lot like animal tracks to me too. >> >> Here is a really nice area right around those settlements that I think >> is covered in animal paths and tracks: >> https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/4.41335/13.89073 (Mapbox >> imagery) >> >> There are what look like dozens of animal paths coming together to go >> into the trees on the west side of the area where I am guessing there >> is a watering hole, in addition to one well worn highway=track (maybe) >> going NE'ish. >> >> And 1.5km ESE of the that watering area are again, what look to me >> like dozens of animal paths going out to a grazing area. I would guess >> they are animal tracks because there are so many, jaggy little paths, >> mostly faint and they seem to just sort of go to nowhere, not crops or >> anything. But when the animal paths all converge, aside from the >> general "jaggedness" of the path they make and the nonsense layout, >> are almost indistinguishable from man made highway=track. >> >> It is a really interesting and educational area, thank you again for >> sharing it. >> >> >> On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 9:27 PM, althio forum <althio.fo...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi >>> >>> It is interesting that you call them animal tracks. What are the hints to >>> take them as such? My first thoughts would have been: those are regular >>> tracks and paths used by walking humans, maybe animals and sometimes >>> vehicles. >>> >>> In HOT context with remote mapping we are able to identify some >>> agricultural >>> fields and tag them as landuse=farmland. When the area is extensive and >>> we >>> can spot associated buildings we can occasionally tag the related >>> buildings >>> as landuse=farmyard as you suggested. >>> >>> At first sight the assembled buildings would be settlements in my mind so >>> I >>> would tag landuse=residential. But I am very attentive to anything you >>> could >>> add to identify this area as animal tracks and farmyard. >>> >>> Is it easily possible to identify pasture/meadow from imagery ? For very >>> detailed rural mapping we could then tag this as landuse=farmland or even >>> landuse=meadow. >>> >>> althio >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> HOT mailing list >>> HOT@openstreetmap.org >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >>> > _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot