Rather than use morança=yes, I would propose morança as value of the key 
'place'. Furthermore, in Africa, usually place=* is assigned to a point, 
located in the center of a residential area, while is uncommon to find it as 
tag of that area.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place
The simplest and most widespread way to map most place types is to position a 
node roughly at it's center (for a populated place having a central town hall, 
square or similar (far from all do), preferably there though).

In my opinion, I would be mapping them as residential areas and putting a point 
with place=isolated_dwellings or similar. If needed, I would add something 
like: description=Morança
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:description

By the way, I totally agree about security. This is by far the most important 
thing and should be the main concern while mapping those areas.

Buon lavoro,
Michael

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On 24/02/20 12:40, Donal Hunt wrote:
There does not appear to be much documentation around the concept of moranças. 
In OSM, it's normal to propose a method for mapping this data and requesting 
review of the proposal. See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal_process

The only other comment I have at this time is whether there are any concerns 
around data protection / security given the ability to identify groups of 
individuals. If I was doing this in Ireland, I would not add surnames to 
residential houses even if the data was available / permissions was granted.

Specifically, on the tagging question. landuse=residential; morança=yes; 
name=<name> does seem a reasonable approach. You may also want to look at 
place=neighbourhood or boundary=administrative (the latter does have an entry 
for Guinea but not Guinea Bissau). A review of tags already in use for the 
country may help identify a good approach.

Regards

Donal

On Sun, 23 Feb 2020 at 15:16, mbranco2 
<mbran...@gmail.com<mailto:mbran...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Dear List,

I'm involved in a project with an Italian high school (IIS A.Avogadro, Turin) 
mapping N'Tchangue area in Guinea Bissau.
After completing the related HOT project (#7151), we're going to add detatils 
to the Map (schools, health center, water wells...) having this informations 
from a NGO (Abalalite) which works there.
Abalalite is giving us information (the name) also about moranças, settlements 
of family clans (they range since 2 to 30 houses).
As you can see in picture [1], moranças are very close each other, all together 
they form the hamlet/village named T'Changue.

We'd like to know your opinion how is the best way to map moranças:
- setting the name tag directly on landuse=residential area (maybe adding a 
"morança=yes" tag? It seems to me it's a specificity, to be areas  inhabited by 
family clans)
- adding the name to place=isolated_dwelling/hamlet tag (not sure it's a good 
idea to put so many hamlets so close each other; also, all together they are a 
village...)
- or ... ?

Thank you for your opinion,
Marco (mbranco2)

[1] 
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/N%27tchangue_Moran%C3%A7as.jpg
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