Hi Janet,
I also forwarded your email to Illya, one of the maps.me developers.
But Joost's email just reminded me that we are in the process of
creating a maps.me export for our HOT Export Tool that would allow you
to get an up to the minute set of data for maps.me anytime you want, so
you could literally map today, and be using the data you entered later
that evening in maps.me.
I ran out of time, but I also spoke a little bit to Illya about how we
might help add to the their existing data editing model to better
support humanitarian mapping.
maps.me as a company is a great supporter of humanitarian mapping and
they often contact HOT to discuss ways they can support our work in
their tools (the HOT export tool support being one very concrete
example, open sourcing their product is another) so I am sure we can
make progress to make the app even more useful in the contexts we
generally work.
Cheers,
Blake
On 4/20/2016 2:45 PM, joost schouppe wrote:
Hi Janet,
While I know it is possible to do such things with those apps, I
wouldn't know how. But it helps asking around. Or posting on their issue
trackers as suggested.
Same goes for querying data provided by Osmand and maps.me
<http://maps.me> editors. Must be possible, but not trivial. I think the
best way would be to create an rss feed of relevant changesets (hard) ,
loading those in an online spreadsheet (easy) , and marking them as
checked when you had a look (very easy).
I think my friends in Bolivia would like to have such a thing too.
Joost
Op 20-apr.-2016 11:05 schreef <j.chap...@tanzdevtrust.org
<mailto:j.chap...@tanzdevtrust.org>>:
Dear Joost
Thanks very much for that. It would be fantastic to create an
African or even Swahili Maps.me with relevant tags, as I think this
is definitely a great way to get people on the ground mapping.
I'm currently writing this on my phone on a bus in Kakonko, and
can't check out the links yet, but do you know if there is a way in
osm to bring up all the points in an area that have been added via
Maps.me as often you're mapping onto a blank page so points are
unlikely to correspond exactly to a building, but could be
corrected in osm with reference to the satellite image..
Thanks
Janet
From: joost schouppe
Sent: Wednesday 20 April 09:45
Subject: Re: [HOT] Maps.Me in Tanzania
To: j.chap...@tanzdevtrust.org <mailto:j.chap...@tanzdevtrust.org>
Hi,
Their help section does not state an exact update frequency [1], but
it seems to be somewhere between a couple of times a year and every
few weeks. However, on this page, you can see the creation date of
the file being pushed now [2] (25th of March right now).
They have gone open source with the code [3], so theoretically it
should be possible to make a Maps.me with African presets.
Of course, if you need full flexibility, Osmand is probably better
out of the box.
Considering the risk of making duplicate entries: in case of doubt,
always make a note instead of a POI. But even with updated maps, I'm
seeing a lot of duplicate entries by newbie mappers with maps.me
<http://maps.me>. I don't really mind, as they seem to be bending
the curve [4] of the OSM-world in general.
1: http://maps.me/en/help#mapdata
2: http://direct.mapswithme.com/direct/latest/
3: https://github.com/mapsme
4: https://twitter.com/osm_be/status/722101255779323904
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