Dear Hassanpoor,

Thank you so much for contributing to the map of Afghanistan. I noticed on some of you buildings, they corners are not square. After you digitize a building please select it and hit "q" in both ID editor and JOSM, this will put nice corners on the buildings. JOSM also has the validate button which will show many of the errors.

Best,

Walker

Dear Afnui,

Thank you so much for your work on the Map in Afghanistan! We really appreciate all your help. We are interested in growing the OSM community in Afghanistan so if you're interested we have a Facebook group for OSM Afghanistan. Happy Mapping!

Kind regards,

WalkerB

Dear Hassan,

I hope you are well. Thank you so much for your work on OSM! I noticed that you used BING imagery, you may want to use Maxar Premium because it is usually newer. I've found that Maxar Premium and ESRI Clarity Beta are usually the best. One final note, you may want use the hotkey "Q" to square the buildings so they have nice sharp edges. Just curious, for what organization are you doing this for? I will try to connect your areas to the road network.

Best,

Walker

Dear Jafary sb,

I hope you are well. Thank you so much for your work on OSM! I noticed that you used BING imagery, you may want to use Maxar Premium because it is usually newer. I've found that Maxar Premium and ESRI Clarity Beta are usually the best. One final note, you may want use the hotkey "Q" to square the buildings so they have nice sharp edges. Just curious, for what organization are you doing this for?

Best,

Walker

Salaam Walaikum Sharifullah. Welcome back!

Thank you for adding the roads to the map! I see you're using Bing Imagery, you may want to use Maxar Imagery. It is better. You can change this by selecting "Background Settings" on the right side of the screen and selecting "Maxar Premium".

Thank you for adding this data to the Map. Your contributions help make a better future for all Afghans.

Salaam walaikum!

Thank you for your work on the map of Afghanistan. Your data helps improve the lives of all Afghans. I see you used Bing Imagery, you may want to use Maxar Imagery, it is a little newer than Bing. You can access it in the editor, by selecting "Background settings" on the right, and then selecting Maxar Premium. Thank you so much!

Salaam Walaikum!

Thank you for your work on the map of Afghanistan! You may want to use Maxar Imagery instead of Bing. I think it's a little newer. You can change image source under "Background Settings" on the right side of your screen.

Keep up the good work!

Salaam Wallaikum!

Thank you for your updates to the Map of Afghanistan! You may want to try using Maxar Imagery because I think it's a little newer than Bing.

Thank you so much for helping make the Map of Afghanistan the best it can be!

Hey Will,

Thanks for creating all this great data in the Big Mohammad Area. I'm reaching today because I noticed that a number of the walls are tagged as building=wall, and they should be barrier=wall. No big deal and a really fast fix in JOSM. Also, on the changeset comments could you be a little more specific instead of saying "Updates to big mohammad", maybe something like "Added farmland and walls", that way someone doesn't have to actually look at the changeset to see what you did.

I'm happy to chat more about this if you like, or we can link up DC.

Best,

Walker

Okay, I think I got bridge=culvert errors cleared from all of Afghanistan. Please feel free to check on Overpass turbo:
https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/K9d

Thank you again for keeping me honest and the map of Afghanistan being the best it can be.

I’ve almost got them all done. I should have all of the errors your pointed out eliminated from Afghanistan by the end of today.

Dear Qaderi,

I was looking at this feature just now and had a few questions. On imagery, the GPX track you digitized seems to be on the East side of the river, but the road seems to be on the West side, substantially far away from the track. Can you confirm the location of this road and move it if needed? osm.org/edit?way=610200627#map=16/33.9792/65.7947

Kind regards,

Walker

Dear Masoud sahib,

Your work looks great. Thanks!

Dear Sharifullah,

You've done an absolutely wonderful job! You do so much work and it's all really good. Thank you so much!

Best,

Walker

Thank you so much for contributing to the mapping around Kabul! Your work really helps improve the delivery of services. If it would be easier we have some tasks for buildings in Kabul: https://tasks.hotosm.org/project/4928#bottom
FYI, depending on your zoom level, DigitalGlobe Premium has both old and newer imagery. The newer imagery in the Kabul area is from August 2017.

Thanks again!

Dear Qaderi,

Thank you for continuing the good work. I have a couple of observations. First, I noticed that when you are digitizing by other roads, please make sure the other roads connect to the road you are putting in. This helps keep the connections for different types of analysis. I connected 3-4 roads here. The little dot will turn grey when they are connected. If they are white, they are unconnected. Of course please continue to not connect the roads to the land use areas (like commercial or residential).

Dear Qaderi,

Your digitization looks great! Thanks for keeping up the good work. I'm curious if this is a one-way road the whole way? If not could you please correct it? Also, if you come across the AIMS data (They are usually called "R-C" and are "Tracks") please remove them they are bad data from a long time ago.

Best,

Walker

Dear Sultan Masoud,

Your digitization is great! Thank you for helping make the map of Afghanistan the best it can be!