Blake Many thanks for coming back on this. The task area in question is 82 (bottom right) of #1167 - Boma, South Sudan. I will go back and edit this as you suggest shortly. The area concerned is about one third the way down to the right of centre in the square. I have only plotted two clear hut remains, and there are a couple more which are probably sufficiently clear to add.
Andrew On 1 September 2015 at 13:23, Blake Girardot <bgirar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > Yes, please map buildings and settlements that are visible but damaged or > destroyed. It is really helpful to map things you come across that you > think are interesting or important (man made towers, bridges, dams, etc) > but are not in the instructions. You are never limited by the instructions, > you can always map other things. > > Not having seen the area it is hard to pick the exact tags. Even seeing > the area/buildings it can be hard to pick the best tags as this area of > tagging gets a lot of discussion. > > Can you share the task square number or url for the task square that > contains the area in question? > > Generally, if the area is in or part of a larger settlement and damaged > but likely to be rebuilt we will tag it as landuse=brownfield, as is often > the case after natural disasters. > > If this is a whole settlement that is destroyed and abandoned, I would > suggest putting the prefix abandoned: (also called a "namespace" on any of > the tags you would normally put on it. > > some examples: > > abandoned:building=yes > abandoned:landuse=residential > > For reference, here is the wiki page about that: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:abandoned: > > And like I said, that is how I would do it and others might have some > differing opinions, but that is what makes the most sense to me for the > tags we have now as I understand them. > > If you use the iD editor that can be a little tedious to do, in JOSM we > can edit lots of objects at once, so if you map in the buildings and then > send me a note, I can put the full tag on them. > > Thank you again for helping map and especially for asking questions and > sharing your mapping with the list, we all learn and become better mappers > when that happens! > > Cheers, > Blake > > > > > > On 9/1/2015 11:23 AM, Andrew Patterson wrote: > >> I have been mapping on the South Sudan task that Blake has added to the >> list and in doing so have come across a small abandoned or destroyed >> settlement. Given the history of the area is it valid to map such a >> feature so that it is recorded - or should it be ignored since it is not >> included within the Instructions? I can see that there might be a >> conflict in this between humanitarian and political mapping. >> >> I have left it on the task area for the moment, but can delete it if >> this is felt to be appropriate. If it should be left - how to tag? >> >> >> Andrew >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Andrew Patterson >> >> The information contained in this e-mail and any >> files transmitted with it is confidential and intended for the addressee >> only. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> HOT@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> >> -- Andrew Patterson The information contained in this e-mail and any files transmitted with it is confidential and intended for the addressee only.
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