Re: [OSM-talk] Villages with no highways

2018-04-08 Thread john whelan
Looking at the methodology in the associated blog it appears to include villages that are connected with a path, track or tertiary highway and since it was run in 2016 may possibly be a little out of date. Can anyone think of a JOSM search that would pick them out? Thanks John On Sun, 8 Apr 2018

Re: [OSM-talk] Villages with no highways

2018-04-08 Thread Pierre Béland
My experience from all the humanitarian responses. Yes, it is important to know the territory and adapt. For the North of Mali humanitarian response in early 2013, people had difficulty to identify villages, flooded by water on the available images with the rainy season that last 6 months. In d

Re: [OSM-talk] Villages with no highways

2018-04-08 Thread Warin
In Papua New Guinea there are villages without roads ... people there travel by foot, plane or boat! The terrain is such that vehicle roads, even for bicycles, is impractical. I don't have detailed knowledge of Africa to say if these villages could be real or not... but I would hesitate to del

Re: [OSM-talk] Villages with no highways

2018-04-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 04/08/2018 10:26 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Not only that, someone has already picked them out: Looking a bit more at the list, I wonder if we should maybe delete all nodes that * were imported before 2010 from GNS * were never used since * have a "fixme=no population estimate available,

Re: [OSM-talk] Villages with no highways

2018-04-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 04/08/2018 10:16 PM, john whelan wrote: > If you look in parts of Africa there are a number of villages on the map > but no connecting highways.  Bing imagery is available for many of them > that show highways that connect them. > > Is there an easy way to pick them out? Not only that, so

[OSM-talk] Villages with no highways

2018-04-08 Thread john whelan
If you look in parts of Africa there are a number of villages on the map but no connecting highways. Bing imagery is available for many of them that show highways that connect them. Is there an easy way to pick them out? Thanks John ___ talk mailing li