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Many not existing ways in Somalia
Air a phostadh le UNGSC-DTLM-Ale_Zena 20 An t-Samhain 2018 sa chànan EnglishStarting 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
Beachd le SomeoneElse 20 An t-Samhain 2018 aig 21:20
(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.
Beachd le UNGSC-DTLM-Ale_Zena 21 An t-Samhain 2018 aig 08:08
Yes I think so, I’ve written that just to let know why I’ve deleted so many road.
Beachd le notoncebut2x 26 An t-Samhain 2018 aig 21:28
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!
Beachd le UNGSC-DTLM-Ale_Zena 27 An t-Samhain 2018 aig 07:12
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.
Beachd le notoncebut2x 28 An t-Samhain 2018 aig 15:55
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.