[HOT] DC happy hour with HOT
Hi Not sure if my earlier messages got through (switching over to gmail from yahoo). The Board is meeting together in person in DC July 25-27. We want to get together with folks in the area and raise a glass. After work on Friday July 25. Will send out more details as we know them, but pencil it in now. Mikel ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
[HOT] Interesting read for HOT: GIS Support for the MSF Ebola response in Guinea in 2014
Hi I know some of us have seen and chatted about this report, but not sure if it was shared here. Very interesting read. http://cartong.org/sites/cartong/files/GIS%20Support%20for%20the%20MSF%20Ebola%20Response%20in%20Guinea_Case%20Study.pdf Just a few things I picked up on "MSF should discuss such issues with HOT in order to establish a set of procedures and manage expectations, for example, to define the type and frequency of feedback, the extent of public communication, as well as when the task has been completed (deactivation)." Indeed. Attention is part of HOT's currency, and we should strike the right balance. Looking forward to following up on this! Apparently the GIS officer collected information back to OSM, like village locations. Making this an easy workflow and set of tools is important. Building level detail was not cited as particularly useful. However, buildings were essential for the population estimate maps (awesome work Andrew) which were cited as useful. There's also long term utility; some interviewee commented they were surprised maps didn't already exist from past years work in the region. "Given the usefulness of these maps, MSF should identify current areas of operation where the organisation expects to continue to work and try to produce base maps for these areas" That's outside the ebola response ... suggests preparation exercises with HOT, perhaps like awesome Jorike's DRC field mission, and the MissingMaps initiative. -Mikel ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] Ebola Outbreak Activation
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ralph, Yes, feel free to use whatever imagery is available. Sometimes there are small overlaps with Bing that we either don't know about ourselves or we just don't mention because there is not much there. For non-square buildings you can select a bunch (make sure you get just the ways, not the nodes as well) in josm and press 'q' to orthogonalise them. If they don't look like they match the imagery at all, you can try shifting the imagery to line it up as they may just have been traced from differently aligned imagery (check the roads in the surrounding area to see if there is a consistent shift). - -AndrewBuck On 07/16/2014 03:50 AM, AYTOUN RALPH wrote: > In Vol 53 Issue 35 I see mentioned that you want to close down the > eastern part of Task 568 because there is no imagery. > > I looked at one of the eastern tiles, the top left hand corner, one > tile down (the one below Masundu). I could not get any imagery from > the Mapbox that was mentioned in the Task Manager and saw that the > tile had been marked red as complete. I looked at the Bing imagery > for that tile and found Highway=tracks and paths and also > buildings. If you want I could go back to that task and add the > detail that I have seen on Bing (if that is acceptable) and then > validate the tiles. I was not looking at the suggested imagery so, > rather than do something wrong I decided to leave it for someone > else to validate or correct. I cannot always access the imagery > requested in the Task Manager and when this happens I just do not > work on that task as there are plenty of others to do. More recent > tasks have had a link to the requested imagery that works very well > and I have been able to work on those tiles without any > difficulty. Thank you whoever for that improvement. I have also > noticed that some mappers have been creating buildings with random > shapes not using the squaring or rounding tools available > (something I was guilty of when I first started). On a number of > tiles I have had to delete all the buildings and redraw them as > they bore no resemblance to the buildings on the imagery. > Fortunately this is not happening too often. Happy Mapping Ralph > > > > ___ HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTxn1bAAoJEK7RwIfxHSXbYZcP/28OnV70sgnKtA8XxYlzH71g c7dvdRaiyGi8Vt1brFX5Qy3HNt6oYXiVMC6HOG6HJ9G/3juN0agItRsYEUEcRQn2 2axhCkdSkuJEv7Uo0PqVZ/RvQudsEAXLf+4feu0M5NUfI/PVbh7v2rONCvCEGUjJ wZmxqTD/SLwA0ssdKealo9UAD9kocqXf8E9tlDY82T75LEnRwF8tjjk6JTyGSUYq pUqiG1GMhAlizgi6c9xUvSm2i2tdntM/locbflM0pAKWFmWUWX1DRz1ZvxyUoF3+ kRw2ZbvCElQYYYaFu/1dkrt904RDpu1Pi/QE1o70LsZ306/mnWsNTHFYEfWXpkUP UyeamEo1QwgMJPYo1mTMQkWjIFo6pXsbJP6X3Wa8EnewX0Ay/ugdawqs1i5oEEBa 4FjPTJfsFToqi+RsaiGNCH8sljxgU21uefXCzU212kpZ613wV+pHKwJRXoT45Qpy YbGg/QaVycjnYKzeTVamI8Ovd15+Jf9caJGSXHEXfhPrNKS9wihcG0ORZeSYt9/+ /6PI9sytqVAz5kWVJND12iskSgKSqS5XkwsBtmunATn1XgrVX0/mi40hb6bhfWPd 7WomzWSQEbWSl8Yq2tYNCwF1cXTZonqSCa9VycoKcUtpRwZpdHEvyAbbkxBFB3Wz KJs1BVH3p74N8xBlfPGu =SO0u -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
[HOT] DC, Come raise a glass with the HOT Board
Hi DC Hotties The HOT Board is meeting in person over the weekend of July 25-27. After the first day, we'd love to raise a glass or two with anyone in the area. Pencil it in! We're thinking about gathering at the Iron Horse Tap Room on 7th http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1422466837. Will send the final details sometime next week. Cheers Mikel * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
[HOT] HOT Happy Hour in DC, Friday July 25
Hi DC Hotties The HOT Board is meeting in person over the weekend of July 25-27. After the first day, we'd love to raise a glass or two with anyone in the area. Pencil it in! We're thinking about gathering at the Iron Horse Tap Room on 7th http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1422466837. Will send the final details sometime next week. Cheers Mikel * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
[HOT] Tasking Manager V2 launch
Dear all, The tech team at Humanitarian Openstreetmap Team is proud to announce that we will launch a new version of the Tasking Manager soon. During the migration from the current version to the new one, the Tasking Manager will not be available. The downtime is supposed to last only few minutes. The migration is scheduled on Thursday 17th of July at 08:00 UTC. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140717T08&p1=1440 Sorry for the inconvenience. We'll send a message for the official launch once ready. Thanks, Pierre -- - | Pierre GIRAUD - ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] Ebola Outbreak Activation
In Vol 53 Issue 35 I see mentioned that you want to close down the eastern part of Task 568 because there is no imagery. I looked at one of the eastern tiles, the top left hand corner, one tile down (the one below Masundu). I could not get any imagery from the Mapbox that was mentioned in the Task Manager and saw that the tile had been marked red as complete. I looked at the Bing imagery for that tile and found Highway=tracks and paths and also buildings. If you want I could go back to that task and add the detail that I have seen on Bing (if that is acceptable) and then validate the tiles. I was not looking at the suggested imagery so, rather than do something wrong I decided to leave it for someone else to validate or correct. I cannot always access the imagery requested in the Task Manager and when this happens I just do not work on that task as there are plenty of others to do. More recent tasks have had a link to the requested imagery that works very well and I have been able to work on those tiles without any difficulty. Thank you whoever for that improvement. I have also noticed that some mappers have been creating buildings with random shapes not using the squaring or rounding tools available (something I was guilty of when I first started). On a number of tiles I have had to delete all the buildings and redraw them as they bore no resemblance to the buildings on the imagery. Fortunately this is not happening too often. Happy Mapping Ralph ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
