Update from HOT - Jenin

Unfortunately, the West Bank has had a lot of remote mapping happen too it, aome of spectacularly poor quality.

Would it be possible to try and tidy up some of what is there first (or at least try and understand it to work around it)?

Depending on the goal of your mapping and the things that you want to map, you may be able to work around the current issues and do what you need to do, but you may not.

Given the untangling that might be necessary (and this obviously varies by location) you may need to request that the people who do the tasks are experts at OSM spelunking.

Edit: Actually, after looking at where Jenin is with regard to the previous problem imports, you might not run into those. A check of objects in Jenin finds that there was some “seagull mapping” (but a different group) there have been attempts to tidy that up by people at least adjacent to the area.

One thing that would be really helpful would be to publish the text of any tasking manager project here before making it live - that way people can suggest how to make it more watertight rather than relying on common sense that a remote mapper might not have.

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