Re: [HOT] Introducting myself + questions about Highway Tag Africa standards

2014-03-08 Thread Rafael Avila Coya
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Vincent: Since the day you sent your email, and because you talked about road tagging in West Africa, with reference to the Trans-Sahelian Highway (TAH 5), I thought it would be interesting to complete (took me 4 days full time) the Trans-Sahelian

Re: [HOT] Introducting myself + questions about Highway Tag Africa standards

2014-03-04 Thread Mikel Maron
Hi Vincent Welcome! I don't have direct experience of these roads, but from my perspective, sounds like a reasonable and informed approach. Hopefully people working in the region will share their ideas on this. I just wanted to say, that you should also feel free to contact directly other

Re: [HOT] Introducting myself + questions about Highway Tag Africa standards

2014-03-04 Thread Pierre Béland
of theTrans-African Highway Network or others. Regard   Pierre De : Vincent Dawans dawa...@gmail.com À : hot@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Lundi 3 mars 2014 21h14 Objet : [HOT] Introducting myself + questions about Highway Tag Africa standards Hello: My

Re: [HOT] Introducting myself + questions about Highway Tag Africa standards

2014-03-04 Thread Mamadou bassirou THIAM
Hi there, Welcome Vincent and many thanks for your message. Overall, I can confirm your remarks on West African ground. A first clarification to bring is that Highway Tag Africa http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa is actually an initiative, for now. After an active mappy

Re: [HOT] Introducting myself + questions about Highway Tag Africa standards

2014-03-04 Thread Vincent Dawans
Mamadou: Good to know Senegal is on task! Yes, now I see on the Senegal wiki page the same issue I am raising. I think I agree with the comment about using trunk for maybe only the (roads) with the highest quality (at least two lanes of good asphalt) and major topological roles. My take is

Re: [HOT] Introducting myself + questions about Highway Tag Africa standards

2014-03-04 Thread Vincent Dawans
Hi Pierre: Thank you for the pointers to the 2013 discussions. I will look at the archive. I can tell you that from what I have seen on the ground, the Mali activation is definitely a success, in particular if you compare the level of details and accuracy with google maps. I do like the

[HOT] Introducting myself + questions about Highway Tag Africa standards

2014-03-04 Thread Will Skora
myself + questions about Highway Tag Africa standards Message-ID: 5315370d.3090...@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; Format=flowed Hello: My name is Vincent Dawans and I am a Senior Technical Advisor at Virtue Ventures, a technical firm dedicated to supporting NGOs

Re: [HOT] Introducting myself + questions about Highway Tag Africa standards

2014-03-04 Thread Mamadou bassirou THIAM
+1 For your trunck definition suggestion On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Vincent Dawans dawa...@gmail.com wrote: Mamadou: Good to know Senegal is on task! Yes, now I see on the Senegal wiki page the same issue I am raising. I think I agree with the comment about using trunk for maybe

Re: [HOT] Introducting myself + questions about Highway Tag Africa standards

2014-03-04 Thread nicolas chavent
4, 2014 at 10:22 PM Subject: [HOT] Introducting myself + questions about Highway Tag Africa standards To: hot@openstreetmap.org Cc: Augustin Doury augustin.do...@hotosm.org Hi Vincent, Welcome :) I honestly don't recall why trunk roads were not included in the highway Africa tags page

[HOT] Introducting myself + questions about Highway Tag Africa standards

2014-03-03 Thread Vincent Dawans
Hello: My name is Vincent Dawans and I am a Senior Technical Advisor at Virtue Ventures, a technical firm dedicated to supporting NGOs and social enterprises in the developing world.As a technical advisor, I do a lot of traveling. I am currently traveling to West Africa every 3 months or so.