On Mon, July 2, 2018 1:26 pm, Robert Banick wrote:
> Many humanitarian groups use buildings as a rough proxy for population
Yes, I have had that explanation from multiple sources involved in
humanitarian uses of Openstreetmap: from that they can calculate, for
example, the impact a a flood.
I bel
Low quality building mapping is pretty general in Africa, I mentioned
Malawi still has some 4,805 duplicate buildings in the HOT mailing list
very recently which as a percentage of the buildings mapped is probably
fairly low but is still a concern. The problem is one of data quality, is
OSM reliab
Many humanitarian groups use buildings as a rough proxy for population
(density), or to ensure every household is covered during a vaccination
campaign, or simply to navigate. Likely they use them for a combination of
the three. As Phil says, it’s best to read the specific task.
As a side note, it
On 02/07/18 18:52, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Hi,
On 02.07.2018 10:24, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
churning out buildings like demented stonemasons trying to reach their weekly
quota
of gamified task-managing !
I recently stumbled upon
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/-6.8958/39.1623
(Tanzania
Hi,
On 02.07.2018 10:24, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
> churning out buildings like demented stonemasons trying to reach their weekly
> quota
> of gamified task-managing !
I recently stumbled upon
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/-6.8958/39.1623
(Tanzania) and had a similar thought. The build
Active in Senegal and Mali, I have noticed that changesets tagged with
tasking-manager HOT projects produce very large numbers of buildings.
Those buildings appear to be of very low quality. I wonder: who uses
this data ?
If it is only necessary to assess that people live there, then a
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