I had a reply this morning: > First, the Facebook maps is using OpenStreetMap data in Japan area. After our tasks, they updated map tiles by latest OSM map dataset.
I understand these projects have now been lowered from high pirority to low. I think I'll go back to mapping Africa etc. for some reason mapping to improve the map for Facebook just doesn't appeal. Thanks John On 9 May 2016 at 12:40, Russell Deffner <russell.deff...@hotosm.org> wrote: > Greetings John and all, > > > > I will try to help connect you with the local team. To ‘take us back’ and > try to answer some of your questions – this response has from the start > been coordinated by CrisisMappers-Japan. So maybe it is a language issue > and they did not understand your message? However, what was maybe ‘missed’ > was a quick ‘identification’ by the local team, that the immediate search > and rescue operations would be done by ‘traditional first responders’ who > would have their own maps and such, so this has always been more a > ‘long-term’ recovery/just further helping the wonderful efforts of > OSM-Japan in general, however I too would like to know if that has changed > and/or any ‘use cases’ that have come up since then. > > > > In general, these are good and valid questions/concerns, and HOT is always > working to improve not only our own coordination, but how we better support > these local groups. Language barriers, time zones, and many other things > contribute to communication challenges, so patience is always key around > OSM. > > > > Cheers, > > =Russ > > > > *From:* john whelan [mailto:jwhelan0...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Monday, May 09, 2016 10:04 AM > *To:* Mike Thompson > *Cc:* hot@openstreetmap.org > *Subject:* Re: [HOT] Japanese earthquake projects > > > > I'm surprised to have no response to what is happening in Japan. I think > surprised is the polite way of putting it. > > I even tried to contact the project manager but no response. It is now > Tuesday morning in Japan. I looked at a couple more. > > I note that 1799 wants the sea mapping, or at least a third of the tiles > would seem to be over the sea. > > 1798 there is a high priority zone but much of it is not tiled. > > 1788 there is a high priority zone but some of it is not tiled. > > 1784 wow we've done a really good job of validating the sea on this one. > > 1786 again lots of sea to map. We haven't managed to do the high priority > zone. > > These are in addition to the issues on 1800. > > In total there are some dozen projects mostsy high priority relating to > earthquakes in Japan that's asking for a lot of resources. I think what > we've ended up with is too few mappers spread out over too many projects to > get anything useful done in a reasonable time frame. Are they still high > priority? > > > > Yes mappers don't cost anything in money terms but surely we can expect a > higher standard of project management than appears to be the case here > especially with Ecuador needing to be mapped at the same time. > > Cheerio John > > > > On 7 May 2016 at 18:27, john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've sent something to the project manager maybe we'll hear something > after the weekend. > > Cheerio John > > > > On 7 May 2016 at 13:14, Mike Thompson <miketh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I would also note that it looks like we have some relatively new (8 total > OSM change sets) mappers playing the role of validator and invalidating > tasks for things beyond the requirement of the project (e.g. "incorrect > paths set" when the project [#1844] only called for buildings). > > > > Mike > > > > On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 7:02 AM, john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've been mapping and validating on Project 1800 but it doesn't make a lot > of sense. > > The most difficult part to map is the built up areas with lots of very > close buildings which in some ways I'd expect a city in Japan to have its > own maps of buildings. Those tiles take time and lots of it. The buildings > are so close together that you really need the building tool to map them > rather than squaring them afterwards. > > These tiles by the way still have a lot of buildings to be mapped even > though the project says 82% complete I'd say we're only a third the way > through the buildings. > > > Then we have lots of tiles over the ocean, nothing there, and many many > tiles over forest, again not much to map. > > Could someone expand a little more on who has asked for the mapping and > what it will be used for? > > Thanks John > > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > > > > > >
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