I have removed your Way: 672947574. It is the old detour road used when the Ngwerere Rd was rebuilt and is no longer used. The satellite imagery of Lusaka is not up-to-date so does not accurately reflect what is on the ground (this is true for most of Zambia). It is always dangerous for remote mappers to realign roads in this part of the world for this reason. Please see osm.wiki/WikiProject_Zambia#Mapping for some updated guidelines. Thanks

Hi Erik,

Just a note on dam terminology in this part of the world. Technically a dam is the wall that holds back the water which is then called a lake or reservoir i.e Kariba dam impounds Lake Kariba. Here in Southern Africa we call the water held back a dam and the wall a dam wall. In OSM if you tag the water as a dam it will show up as grey. What I do is create a relationship with the wall tagged as dam the remaining way around the water is not tagged and then the whole relationship is tagged as natural:water water:reservoir. I have changed your way, id:672234649 as such. the wall can also be tagged as a highway if the wall has a road or track running over the top but you have to create the highway in 3 sections, 1 for the wall and then 2 either side otherwise the whole highway ends up tagged as a dam wall. Using the relationship method also means you do not have to tag the node where the river crosses the wall as a dam.

The stream you mapped with the Fix me tag is not a stream but a channel of open water in the wetlands (Barotse Wetlands). It will be flowing but not wild and is probably kept open by the Lozi people living on the wetland as a transport route using dugout canoes. The white patches are most likely sand, if you select the Bing imagery you will see there are no white as it is probably taken when the water was at a higher level. in fact if you zoom out with Bing you will see the line of the "stream" winding to the east towards the main channel of the Zambezi. The Lozi people will travel miles in their dugouts fully loaded with family members and even dogs, chickens and goats and barely any freeboard. The sand in this part of the world is almost snow white and will make a squeaking sound when walked on.

Hi stand-it

I have converted a large number of your residential roads to service roads as they are driveways have also removed some non existent roads ie the one connecting Kudu Road to Sable road

I have a small issue with Tag Africa as it assumes that the whole of Africa is one country. I'm sure mappers from the US or Canada would not take kindly to a Tag North America page. For a start in Africa there are countries that drive on the left as well as those that drive on the right so wirh one way streets it is important the direction the ways are drawn. The whole of the US as well as the whole of China will fit into Africa with plenty to spare. Many roads are designated as secondary or tertiary while are little more than tracks. Also the rate of development is high so the satellite imagery may not reflect the actual situation on the ground. I have had mappers remove ways because they do not see them on the imagery but I have mapped using GPS.

Just sone things to keep in mind.

I was not the original mapper here just corrected where highway types were wrong as most are tracks or paths if I see that highways are not connected I connect them but otherwise just change the types. I find a lot of the remote mappers make many assumptions and errors as they have no idea as to what they are mapping. As this area has been my home for over 50 years I think I have a little knowledge.

Be careful here many of the roads you have converted to service roads are not in fact service roads

Hi most the buildings in this part of Zambia are round, rectangular or square. The sections interconnecting them are in fact reed fences to demarcate a yard or garden, or a cattle pen in which case they will not be made of reeds but from cut wooden poles.

Please be careful when deleting ways that are part of a relation as they may break the relation. These ways were part of the Barotse Floodplain relation, a very large floodplain and wet land along the Zambezi River. I have reverted your changes to fix the relation.

Please be careful when editing you managed to convert the entire Barotse Floodplain into a building. I have reverted it back

Please don't realign roads in Lusaka based on old satellite imagery. There have been many new road developments here and imagery is nearly always out of date. Rather leave it to local mappers who know what is on the ground

Be careful using satellite imagery to realign roads in Zambia as the imagery is not necessarily up to date and there have been a lot of road developments lately. If you zoom the images you will see some roads appear and disappear depending on zoom level as they are of different dates.

Hi,

Just a note on new Great North Road dual carriageway. Each side has 2 lanes, dual carriageway combined has 4 lanes i.e. 2 lanes each side to the Kabanana roundabout. From there 3 lanes each side. I have reverted it back hope you don't mind.

Of the thousands of OSM changes and additions I have made many are wetland creations and updates in Zambia, a country I know well as I live here. Where the water bodies are obviously oxbows I tag them as such if not obvious I leave the tag as water only, I may have missed some though. The change set you have commented on is not an obvious oxbow hence I have not tagged it as such.

Kind regards

Hi,

While doing edits around Kalabo I came across this edit and thought I would contact you. I know it is over a year old but I am not sure if you have tagged this house as the one where you were born, but in this day and age of identity theft I am not sure it is a wise idea.

I have not removed the tagging but you may want to reconsider it.

Regards,

Hi

I have replaced my relation details. I do not want to fight with you but be aware the rendered map tiles are not re-rendered immediately. Most tiles in this region were last rendered on Sunday morning so any changes since then do not show also your browser may be loading from its cache so may not have the latest updates. I suggest you Google this.

From your edits I assume you have extensive knowledge of Zambia, but there are some errors, East Two is not a city or even a town it is the government designation of the airstrip, have a look at the map and you will find a number of these airstrips, the residential area has grown because the airstrip is there, I have removed the 'city'. The Bangweulu Swamps are not seasonal but their extent may vary with the seasons so the outer edges may be seasonal but as this part of Zambia receives in the region of 1000mm and greater of rain annually and most of that in 4 to 5 months you can be sure it is always there.
I have not removed any of your traces, just tried to create relations out of them with the correct roles for each element but as there are many self intersecting ways this has been a big task bu I will leave it to you.

I have found contributors that have absolutely no knowledge of the region have made assumptions and added or edited the maps and created errors. As I have lived in Zambia all my life I think I know a fair amount about the country but obviously not everything.

Regards

Hi,

I see you are mapping the Bangwelu Swamps. May I suggest an easier way. You can trace around the outer edges and add them to a multipolygon relation similar to how you have done it here but give the members the role of 'outer'. These outer members can be in sections not necessarily one long run. then any features inside the relation that are not part of the wetlands can be traced separately and added to the relation with the role 'inner' this will have the effect of leaving them as 'holes' in the relation. you can do this with open water and high ground or islands. It will also mean that in OpenStreetMap Bangwelu Swamps will be labelled with one name not several different labels all over the map.

I hope this helps. I have just done the same with the Barotse Floodplain.

Cheers,
Dave

Please check the location of the Czech Embassy in Lusaka. You have placed it in The Roan and Sable restaurant, the address you have added is Twin Palm road, which is nowhere near where you have indicated the Embassy. I have moved it off Roan and Sable but not positioned it in the correct place as I am not sure of it's location. Please check this thanks

This is not a body of water, it is a seasonal wetland known in the region as a 'dambo'. During the rains it will be wet but during the dry season will be dry. they may have an intermittent seasonal stream through them but not always. Often they will be the source of larger rivers but sometimes just form in low lying areas.

Please consider reclassifying as seasonal wetland.

Please could you check this as some schools are duplicated and others are positioned in Lake Kariba.

Thanks