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 nicolas chavent
t 10:22 PM Subject: [HOT] Introducting myself + questions about "Highway Tag Africa" standards To: hot@openstreetmap.org Cc: Augustin Doury Hi Vincent, Welcome :) I honestly don't recall why trunk roads were not included in the highway Africa tags page. As Mikel noted, these

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 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 only the (roads

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

2014-03-04 Thread Will Skora
ot@openstreetmap.org > Subject: [HOT] Introducting 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

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 ap

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 i

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 is actually an initiative, for now. After an active mappy ye

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

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

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 peopl

[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.