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Many not existing ways in Somalia
Pleatst troch UNGSC-DTLM-Ale_Zena op 20 novimber 2018 yn it English.Starting to add roads and other features in Somalia, around Baidoa (Baydhabo بيدوا), I often come across with long ways that have “attribution: Mart Roumen; FAO-SWALIM; Madmappers-SOM-2008-01’”. Most of them are not more visible through many satellite imageries, sometimes cross water or residential areas regardless of any feature on the ground.
I know Somalia and other territories can change very quickly but it looked me strange that so many areas changed dramatically. So, when I have no evidence of them I delete them.
Discussion
Reäksje fan SomeoneElse op 20 novimber 2018 om 21.20 oere
(as an example to find who created something like this) I searched taginfo for part of that string and then clicked through to an overpass turbo query on part of Somalia.
As an example, that found this way which was added in this changeset. If you comment there an email will go to the user, but as they haven’t been active in 11 months they may not see your message.
These roads were added 7 years ago, so I suspect that there isn’t a problem with deleting ones that don’t exist in any currently available imagery and don’t have GPS traces backing up their location.
Reäksje fan UNGSC-DTLM-Ale_Zena op 21 novimber 2018 om 08.08 oere
Yes I think so, I’ve written that just to let know why I’ve deleted so many road.
Reäksje fan notoncebut2x op 26 novimber 2018 om 21.28 oere
Hi I found this diary through a google search…I have come across these roads as well. I noticed that a lot of them don’t align to any of the default imagery (Bing, Digital Globe or ESRI). I will go ahead and delete them or correct them as well!
Reäksje fan UNGSC-DTLM-Ale_Zena op 27 novimber 2018 om 07.12 oere
Delete them? Why you should delete a (maybe) disaligned geometries? If you are pretty sure are misaligned you’re welcome to correct them, but you shouldn’t delete.
Reäksje fan notoncebut2x op 28 novimber 2018 om 15.55 oere
To clarify I am not deleting the ones that are slightly misaligned ones…just deleting ones that are very obviously wrong. For example if they are not near roads in any of the available imagery and cut through whole neighborhoods.