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Data Improvements in Venezuela
Task Description
This task outlines work to improve OSM data in Venezuela, such as the road network, coastlines and inland water, and land use -- remove duplicates, correct geometry, fix incorrect tags and other similar things.
Improvements that will be addressed include the following:
- Correcting road connectivity issues
- Improving road classification consistency according to OSM and local guidelines
- Adding missing roads
- Correcting road alignment issues
- Correcting coastline and water features
- Adding or correcting buildings and land use
- Other one-off fixes
Mapping Guidelines
The team will follow OSM and local policy, along with any other guidelines as appropriate.
For water and coastlines, the team will follow OSM coastline guidelines, waterways policy such as water and natural=water and local policy along with any other policy as appropriate.
Some coastlines are connected to administrative boundaries, in which case we will adjust both if appropriate.
Where we see them, we will remove the source=PGS tag, which was from an earlier coastline import that needs to be cleaned up. We received a message on the India coastlines project requesting this, and it is commonly done in other coastline improvement edits.
When in doubt, the team will use the existing tags and data which are used locally. The history in JOSM (ctrl-H) identifies what previous mappers added and their notes and/or explanations regarding changes made. This history can also show if a previous mapper has visited that area or has expert knowledge or sources.
The team will use the imagery and data sources specified below for mapping in the country.
We have also messaged talk-ve to get feedback and suggestions about the project.
Our team uses the hashtag #adt (for Apple Data Team) for our edits.
Area of Focus
Throughout Venezuela.
Tools
The team will use JOSM for completing the task. JOSM has validation warnings for road networks and other possible issues that are important to prevent improper changes.
Sources
- Maxar/DigitalGlobe Standard/Premium
- Bing imagery
- Mapbox imagery
- ESRI imagery
- HOT task imagery, if any
- Mapillary
- OpenStreetCam
- Pic4Carto
- Telenav's MissingRoads plugin and ImproveOSM
- Strava and OSM GPS traces
The team will apply image offsets as needed.
Changeset Comments
The team will provide changeset comments that are in compliance with OSM changeset guidelines.
Error Detection
The team will check for errors visually and using JOSM validation warnings prior to committing the changeset.
In addition, the team will review its work in accordance with validation guidelines such as the OSM Wiki and LearnOSM validation guidelines
Contributors
MapRoulette
We have also posted MapRoulette challenges related to the road network: https://maproulette.org/browse/projects/39222
For more information
Our community lead is Teddy Ahlvin and our editing leads are Jon Westlake and Erica Olson. To get in touch with Teddy, you can email or contact him via OSM. (https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/LessThan3Nodes) All of our leads can be reached via email.
