Massive import of water features at Bangkok shore

stephankn · 2021-01-18 22:59:04

Hello,

In December a large "import" happened which adds hundreds of water patches. All in the fish-farming area.

I noticed because if is technically badly executed and has lots of invalid polygons. For example here: way 884140596

The changeset itself was for example discussed here due to bad quality: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/95728109

Do we endorse this edit? Who is going to fix all the broken geometry? As it is just a few days old, we can also consider a revert.

Stephan

nitinatsangsit · 2021-01-19 03:31:12

It's an auto-generated landuse classification created on my own from Sentinel satellite image, so it's not violated any rules.

I know that geometries look quite rough, but at least it might be better than leave the area empty, especially for low-zoom level. It looks like some kind of roughly-mapped such as many natural=wood around Thailand.
I'm sorry that I forgot to put some fixme or note on the geometries.

Regards

stephankn · 2021-01-19 15:57:24

Have you followed any of the pre-requisites of the import guideline?

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines

Step 2, 4, and 5 are certainly missing. There was neither community discussion, documentation or review.

nitinatsangsit · 2021-01-20 04:34:23

I haven't seen this import guidelines before, so I apologize for not follow these guidelines.

If it shouldn't be imported, then revert it can be the choice.

Edited:

While waiting for others to discuss this issue, I would explain my work here.

What I'm going to do is to make landuse data available in OSM for Thailand. At least it will make the map look nice on low-zoom level.
My workflow is to generate a landuse classification from satellite imagery with some software, then manually correct some important errors, delete polygons that overlap with the pre-mapped things, and import to OSM with note described as approximately generated.
IMO this workflow could make rough landuse available with low effort. However, it might make some geometries look weird at high-zoom level, but at least it maybe better than leave the area empty, or wait for someone to do the manual-mapping which could take time for decades. (To make it more precise can be the future work.)

I have seen many large natural=wood (such as national park forest area) which are mapped more rough than the result of my workflow. For the reason it can be accepted, maybe it's about the scale of the polygon. The accuracy error appeared on these natural=wood might be perceived too little in compared with the whole polygon.
If this is the point we have to think about, so I would avoid small polygons to be imported, keep only polygons which are large enough.

So how large the polygon that could be accepted, or it cannot be accepted at all.

Regards

Last edited by nitinatsangsit (2021-01-25 10:35:16)

Paul_012 · 2021-01-28 17:14:12

I think we might need to be a bit more careful with water features than e.g. farmland or woodland, since areas that appear covered by water will be presumed unnavigable, while roads or paths can be expected to exist that go through cultivated or forested areas. Being roughly drawn shouldn't be a problem if it didn't result in a lot of objects confusingly touching each other or overlapping other features (as is the case in several places).

Another concern might arise questioning whether such tagging is really a good idea, since the huge swath of water obscures where the shoreline is on the map. But I'd say this reflects reality; if you've been looked out a plane window on approach to Bangkok from the south, the coast of Samut Sakhon and Samut Songkhram really is almost all water. It might be a good idea though to also add landuse=aquaculture, so that it's clear what these ponds are.

nitinatsangsit · 2021-01-29 10:04:15

How about
1. Revert this changeset.
2. Create an import plan on wiki and import list.
3. Fix all overlap between water and highway, to make sure that navigation problem will not occur.
4. Re-upload via dedicated user account.

Paul_012 wrote:

Another concern might arise questioning whether such tagging is really a good idea, since the huge swath of water obscures where the shoreline is on the map. But I'd say this reflects reality; if you've been looked out a plane window on approach to Bangkok from the south, the coast of Samut Sakhon and Samut Songkhram really is almost all water. It might be a good idea though to also add landuse=aquaculture, so that it's clear what these ponds are.

Agreed. Will be added if process a new upload.

stephankn · 2021-02-14 16:32:33

There is a discussion ongoing on the mailing list:
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/piperma … 06530.html

For reference, here the state before revert, compared to aerial:

I think the key points had been mentioned already. The resulting elements should be valid geometry, that means especially no self-intersection or overlap with other features.

The tagging might be tricky as well. Is it all aquaculture? What is mangroves? At least the strip directly at the coast is probably the later. I also wonder whether it is required to try to go to this high-resolution landuse mapping.
The best imagery seems to be 60cm sattelite imagery which frequently has an offset of a few meters between different sources.

For documentation purposes: Please describe the license of the data used. This one?
https://sentinels.copernicus.eu/documen … gal_Notice

Plase also give an overview of how you plan to classify, so we can review for potential systematic problems in the process.

stephankn · 2021-02-14 19:06:43

As you mentioned an automated process: Please make sure that your process generates "pleasant" geometries. The ponds have a quite regular form.

Here is something which should be drawn in a much more regular way (click on thumbnail to download full size):

Mateusz Konieczny · 2021-02-17 09:57:40

As commented in https://lists.openstreetmap.org/piperma … 06531.html - data quality is very low, making it worse than no data.

See https://i.imgur.com/R4wbUnI.png https://i.imgur.com/SYYsWke.png that appear to be of a typical data quality.

If I would spot something like that during mapping I would delete/revert it immediately, just due to quality making harder to fix it than to map from scratch.

nitinatsangsit · 2021-02-19 15:43:23

With the current imagery and tools, I can't make it to generate a good shape of these ponds. So I think I should give up and waiting for some better things in the future.

Regards

#1 2021-01-18 22:59:04

Massive import of water features at Bangkok shore

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