Re: [HOT] HOTOSM #699: About identification of plantations (HOTOSM #699: About identification of plantations in Africa (as for cassava, manioc)

2014-10-22 Thread S Volk
so it may be in wetlands but not visible. Here in Brazil both are widespread too. Regards,Sergio > Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 14:05:23 -0400 > From: bgirar...@gmail.com > To: svo...@hotmail.com > CC: heb...@web.de > Subject: Re: [HOT] HOTOSM #699: About identification of plantations (HOT

Re: [HOT] HOTOSM #699: About identification of plantations (HOTOSM #699: About identification of plantations in Africa (as for cassava, manioc)

2014-10-21 Thread S Volk
Hi Pierre, I agree with the priorities you reminded: > Note that for the Ebola Activation is quite a huge task and our> priority so > far with the large territories to cover is more about> roads, settlements and > place names. It is up to each of you to> decide if you have the time to map > th

Re: [HOT] HOTOSM #699: About identification of plantations (HOTOSM #699: About identification of plantations in Africa (as for cassava, manioc)

2014-10-21 Thread Andrew Buck
2014 14h08 Objet : Re: [HOT] HOTOSM #699: About > identification of plantations (HOTOSM #699: About identification of > plantations in Africa (as for cassava, manioc) > > > This tagging sounds reasonable to me, the only thing I wanted to > add was that when you are tagging

Re: [HOT] HOTOSM #699: About identification of plantations (HOTOSM #699: About identification of plantations in Africa (as for cassava, manioc)

2014-10-21 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This tagging sounds reasonable to me, the only thing I wanted to add was that when you are tagging orchards there are other trees that are planted in orchards in straight rows in this area (for example rubber tree plantations/orchards). The way you ca

Re: [HOT] HOTOSM #699: About identification of plantations (HOTOSM #699: About identification of plantations in Africa (as for cassava, manioc)

2014-10-21 Thread S Volk
Hi, Some more about Africa plantations: Sometimes images shows cassava plantations like rounded light green patterns, planted in not very regular rows (new plants).Sometimes shows only brown rounded holes, but in the exact place where there were plants that were already picked.It only changes fr

[HOT] HOTOSM #699: About identification of plantations (HOTOSM #699: About identification of plantations in Africa (as for cassava, manioc)

2014-10-21 Thread AYTOUN RALPH
I have looked at the imagery and this detail is easily identified. I have started tagging it as landuse=plantation and species=cassava (manioc) If there is a problem with this tagging please let me know and I can change it. I am making a note of where I am doing this in case it changes. The oth

Re: [HOT] HOTOSM #699: About identification of plantations (HOTOSM #699: About identification of plantations in Africa (as for cassava, manioc)

2014-10-21 Thread Blake Girardot
Sergio, Wow, thank you very much. I have wondered what this was in satellite images for a long time and have seen other questions about it. This is just the exact knowledge sharing HOT needs, I can not thank you enough for pointing it out on this list. I will make sure this information gets

[HOT] HOTOSM #699: About identification of plantations (HOTOSM #699: About identification of plantations in Africa (as for cassava, manioc)

2014-10-21 Thread S Volk
Hi everybody, I'm contacing you to suggest an OSM wiki note about the identification of major plantations in Africa from sattelite imagery, for HOTOSM requests. I realise this need, for example, for "cassava" plantation (manioc). It's one of Africa's major rural production, and it's everywhere i