Une maison ne s'appelle pas "maison" - s'il vous plaît supprimez name=maison des building=yes
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S'il te plaît... Les voitures ne sont pas building=yes !

C'mon man - cars are not buildings...

Hello, I noticed that you are currently using Bing imagery for Bamako... Please consider using ESRI World imagery as it is more recent.
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way/591025992

way/591025992 is a car, not a building...

Look at ways such as way/537939837: you are even mapping cars as buildings !

To ensure peace of mind for Openstreetmap, we are going to check the compatibility of the license with the ODbL as interpretation of other clause may raise issues. I'll keep you posted.

At least one the people who helped Senegal deploy this geographic information publishing portal is a well known Openstreetmap contributors and you can bet that he had a hand in the licensing. The paragraphs of interest to us is: "le Sénégal octroie au Détenteur de licence une licence non exclusive, sans frais ni redevances exigibles, et le droit d’utiliser, incorporer, modifier, améliorer, développer et distribuer les Données" - which translate as "Senegal grants to the licensee a non-exclusive, free of cost license and the right to use, incorporate, modify, enhance, develop and distribute the data"... Fits our purposes perfectly. Apart from that, yes, I should follow the import guidelines.

I have discussed it in private with a few persons interested in Senegal's Openstreetmap data - the most active of which are not located in Senegal (getting any sort of feedback is a challenge - especially online, even though I have met contributors personally in Dakar) - responses have been positive. Severin Menard, whom I met recently, has convinced me to document the process (especially the attributes mapping, which are sometimes not simple one to one) and publish it - that is one of my goals for 2018 and I shall do it when I resume this work (of which about two thirds remain to be done - down along the Senegal river) at an undefined later date. An awful lot of manual work goes into cherry-picking (some objects classes are worse than Openstreetmap so they are left alone - and that quality varies between regions), conflating and checking those data in JOSM - for example the waterways in the original source are not oriented and each of them has to verified manually (many thanks to the JOSM developers who responded to my needs - https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/12646) so you can be assured that this is not about dumping raw data but actually smoothly integrating into Openstreetmap... Completely artisanal - the way it should be.

You're welcome. About JOSM's error checking, the error raised on the absence of name would be perfectly relevant in a European town... But of course Eastern Senegal is a little different...

Thanks for your quick answer. Indeed most streets in Senegal have no name - though those in large cities have a reference... But, of course, Dabia is no big city so you can safely posit the absence of name - which the lack of name=* models well enough. noname=yes requires proof of absence of name - a step beyond a probable lack of name... Or most of Senegal's ways would feature noname=yes !

The service vs. residential debate is a long story for Openstreetmap Senegal - many foreign mappers feel that the small backstreets are not residential worthy and therefore are service... But most of them are actually residential. Of course there are many grey areas there - so don't sweat it too much.

Bonjour, bienvenue dans Openstreetmap... Mais malheureusement cette contribution n'y a pas sa place - Openstreetmap n'a pas vocation à enregistrer le domicile de personnes.

Hello, a couple of minor nitpicks:

What is the source for the occurences of noname=yes ? One can't know that from Bing imagery...

For such areas as way:549717420, I advise leisure=common rather than highway=pedestrian

Some of your highway=service, service=driveway are actually highway=residential

Bonne idée - c'est envoyé: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-sn/2017-September/000593.html