PEPFAR has developed a series of mapping tasks to support HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment programs. The data that emerge from these mapping tasks will support our understanding of program coverage, the optimization of supply chain logistics, and the analysis of clinical site-level data. In many places where the epidemic is most severe, there is little spatial data on basic features such as buildings or roads. As a starting point, this tracing guide focuses on creating baseline data on buildings and roads
We've done our best to supply the best possible imagery for tracing. The current bing imagery is often quite usable. We will focus on the iD editor, which is ideal for beginners. If imagery looks blurry or hard to see, double-check that imagery is set to Custom
You can change the imagery like this:
If the imagery seems dark, you may want to brighten it a bit:
Please label all buildings as general buildings. We will seek additional community engagement and add detailed local knowledge to the map after we complete the task. Square the corners of all buildings by pressing "S" on your keyboard after labeling the building. If you see a round structure, such as a Manyatas make it perfectly round by pressing "O".
To trace, select the Area tool (Shortcut: 3) for circled buildings (huts), make a circle instead of an area, then trace the building/wall. Double-click to finish. The process looks like this:
Next, we classify (or "tag") the building, using the buttons on the left side of the screen:
Note that once you've traced a building, you can square the corners easily by hovering and clicking the icon (Shortcut: s)
First we trace the roads, then we classify them. The whole process looks like this:
To trace a road, use the Line tool in iD Editor (Shortcut: 2) and trace along the middle of the road. See below for an example of too few nodes (left), too many nodes (center), and the right amount of nodes (right).
Make sure the roads connect to each other where they cross. You should see a node appear at each intersection (see below).
We're going to tag roads according to the typology described in this OpenStreetMap Wiki: [Highway_Tag_Africa] (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa).
For more resources, see:
Thanks for the clear tips. I just found out about Map Give, and got an OSM account and am going to start mapping!