Re: [HOT] Information about HOT Task #28 - Tamale (Ghana) : Digital Globe

[Enock Seth Nyamador]

Hi Blake,

Thanks for the tuts ;). I use JOSM and know how to fix the alignment 
issues. Will get back to this task later.


and it doesn't affect anyone else so no worries there.

Thanks, and that was what I did in this case.

Once again thanks for interacting.

Regards,

On 01/16/2015 08:08 PM, Blake Girardot wrote:

Hi Enock,

On that same "Background settings" tab in iD at the very bottom it 
says "Fix Alignment"


click on that and 4 "arrows" will appear, use them to move the 
background image around until it matches up with the already drawn 
buildings.


Then just close up that background tab and start mapping.

you are only "adjusting" the background alignment for yourself for 
that session, the next time you open a task square in the task you 
will have to "fix alignment" again.


and it doesn't affect anyone else so no worries there.

(if you are using JOSM, you can do the same there, here are the 
directions for that: 
http://learnosm.org/en/editing/correcting-imagery-offset/)


Cheers,
Blake




On 1/16/2015 8:56 PM, Enock Seth Nyamador wrote:

Hi Blake,

Thanks for your comments.

Yeah Bing has hi-res images for the area. But the problem is Bing is not
aligning with DigitalGlobe traces.

Buildings especially are off that of Bing imagery.

Regards,

On 01/16/2015 06:41 PM, Blake Girardot wrote:

Hi again Enock,

I should have said: Bing has good imagery from 2013 for parts of that
task :)  The other parts are from 2011.

cheers,
Blake



On 1/16/2015 6:59 PM, Enock Seth Nyamador wrote:

Hi All,

Am Enock from Ghana.

Checking task manager to see if some tasks have been set up, I came
across this [1] Wanted to reach out to the one who set it up but no
success. The imagery url provided seems not to work and mapsforall's
website is in a language I can't tell.

Can someone help me out.

1. http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/28
2. mapsforall.org

Regards.





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Re: [HOT] Information about HOT Task #28 - Tamale (Ghana) : Digital Globe

[Blake Girardot]

Hi Enock,

On that same "Background settings" tab in iD at the very bottom it says 
"Fix Alignment"


click on that and 4 "arrows" will appear, use them to move the 
background image around until it matches up with the already drawn 
buildings.


Then just close up that background tab and start mapping.

you are only "adjusting" the background alignment for yourself for that 
session, the next time you open a task square in the task you will have 
to "fix alignment" again.


and it doesn't affect anyone else so no worries there.

(if you are using JOSM, you can do the same there, here are the 
directions for that: 
http://learnosm.org/en/editing/correcting-imagery-offset/)


Cheers,
Blake




On 1/16/2015 8:56 PM, Enock Seth Nyamador wrote:

Hi Blake,

Thanks for your comments.

Yeah Bing has hi-res images for the area. But the problem is Bing is not
aligning with DigitalGlobe traces.

Buildings especially are off that of Bing imagery.

Regards,

On 01/16/2015 06:41 PM, Blake Girardot wrote:

Hi again Enock,

I should have said: Bing has good imagery from 2013 for parts of that
task :)  The other parts are from 2011.

cheers,
Blake



On 1/16/2015 6:59 PM, Enock Seth Nyamador wrote:

Hi All,

Am Enock from Ghana.

Checking task manager to see if some tasks have been set up, I came
across this [1] Wanted to reach out to the one who set it up but no
success. The imagery url provided seems not to work and mapsforall's
website is in a language I can't tell.

Can someone help me out.

1. http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/28
2. mapsforall.org

Regards.





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Re: [HOT] Information about HOT Task #28 - Tamale (Ghana) : Digital Globe

[Enock Seth Nyamador]

Hi Blake,

Thanks for your comments.

Yeah Bing has hi-res images for the area. But the problem is Bing is not 
aligning with DigitalGlobe traces.


Buildings especially are off that of Bing imagery.

Regards,

On 01/16/2015 06:41 PM, Blake Girardot wrote:

Hi again Enock,

I should have said: Bing has good imagery from 2013 for parts of that 
task :)  The other parts are from 2011.


cheers,
Blake



On 1/16/2015 6:59 PM, Enock Seth Nyamador wrote:

Hi All,

Am Enock from Ghana.

Checking task manager to see if some tasks have been set up, I came
across this [1] Wanted to reach out to the one who set it up but no
success. The imagery url provided seems not to work and mapsforall's
website is in a language I can't tell.

Can someone help me out.

1. http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/28
2. mapsforall.org

Regards.



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Re: [HOT] Information about HOT Task #28 - Tamale (Ghana) : Digital Globe

[Blake Girardot]

Hi again Enock,

I should have said: Bing has good imagery from 2013 for parts of that 
task :)  The other parts are from 2011.


cheers,
Blake



On 1/16/2015 6:59 PM, Enock Seth Nyamador wrote:

Hi All,

Am Enock from Ghana.

Checking task manager to see if some tasks have been set up, I came
across this [1] Wanted to reach out to the one who set it up but no
success. The imagery url provided seems not to work and mapsforall's
website is in a language I can't tell.

Can someone help me out.

1. http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/28
2. mapsforall.org

Regards.



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Re: [HOT] Information about HOT Task #28 - Tamale (Ghana) : Digital Globe

[Blake Girardot]

Hi Enock!

You are right, the imagery url does not seem to work, at least not just 
my quick test.


But Bing has good imagery from 2013 for the area.

Can you try the Bing imagery?

If you are using the iD web editor for mapping:

After you load a task square, click the "Background settings" icon tab 
on the right side of the window. It looks like a "stack of papers" "///" 
or you can just hit the 'b' key and that will open it.


Then just click the circle next to "Bing aerial imagery" and it should 
load the Bing.


If you are using JOSM Bing should just be available from your "Imagery" 
menu.


If that does not work for you (clouds or something wrong with Bing) you 
could try "MapBox Satellite" imagery.


If that does not work for you please let us know and we can look into 
getting the mapsforall imagery working.


And please let us know if you have any other questions!

Cheers,
Blake



On 1/16/2015 6:59 PM, Enock Seth Nyamador wrote:

Hi All,

Am Enock from Ghana.

Checking task manager to see if some tasks have been set up, I came
across this [1] Wanted to reach out to the one who set it up but no
success. The imagery url provided seems not to work and mapsforall's
website is in a language I can't tell.

Can someone help me out.

1. http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/28
2. mapsforall.org

Regards.



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Re: [HOT] Information about HOT Task #28 - Tamale (Ghana) : Digital Globe

[Enock Seth Nyamador]

Hi Michael,

Thanks for the heads up. Have been to the Wikipage several times, even 
edited, but how come mapsforall section escaped me ;)


Yes, I was actually checking to see which previous tasks were Ghana related,

Regards,

On 01/16/2015 06:28 PM, Michael Heißmeier wrote:

Hi

Hi All,

Am Enock from Ghana.

Checking task manager to see if some tasks have been set up, I came
across this [1] Wanted to reach out to the one who set it up but no
success. The imagery url provided seems not to work and mapsforall's
website is in a language I can't tell.

Can someone help me out.

1.http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/28
2. mapsforall.org

Regards.



this looks pretty old. The only information I could find about this 
activity is from 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Ghana#Tamale_Mapping_Project 
. 
The task seems to be 2 years old now and a contact person is mentioned 
on that page.


I would typically advise people to look for more recent jobs on the 
task manager but I understand that you are looking for unfinished 
tasks covering Ghana.


Hope this helps.

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Re: [HOT] Information about HOT Task #28 - Tamale (Ghana) : Digital Globe

[Michael Heißmeier]

Hi

Hi All,

Am Enock from Ghana.

Checking task manager to see if some tasks have been set up, I came
across this [1] Wanted to reach out to the one who set it up but no
success. The imagery url provided seems not to work and mapsforall's
website is in a language I can't tell.

Can someone help me out.

1. http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/28
2. mapsforall.org

Regards.



this looks pretty old. The only information I could find about this activity is 
from http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Ghana#Tamale_Mapping_Project 
. 
The task seems to be 2 years old now and a contact person is mentioned on that page.


I would typically advise people to look for more recent jobs on the task manager 
but I understand that you are looking for unfinished tasks covering Ghana.


Hope this helps.

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[HOT] Information about HOT Task #28 - Tamale (Ghana) : Digital Globe

[Enock Seth Nyamador]

Hi All,

Am Enock from Ghana.

Checking task manager to see if some tasks have been set up, I came 
across this [1] Wanted to reach out to the one who set it up but no 
success. The imagery url provided seems not to work and mapsforall's 
website is in a language I can't tell.


Can someone help me out.

1. http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/28
2. mapsforall.org

Regards.

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Re: [HOT] HOT Digest, Vol 59, Issue 10 Message 5 - barrier=fence question

[Blake Girardot]

Hi Andrew,

No, I do not think there is a better tag if you it is a fence or wall of 
some sort, we use barrier=fence or barrier=wall pretty often.


This wiki page will give all the details:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:barrier

I didn't realize the presets put it under highway, that is an 
interesting connection, I never thought of it in that context either.


Cheers,
Blake






On 1/16/2015 11:18 AM, Andrew Patterson wrote:

Blake

You are others have been discussing the tagging of buildings and open
areas, and I have been recently plotting areas in the Sudan - Juba
project which are site compounds which are either residential compounds
and business enclosures.  In more rural areas, similar rectangular
compounds might be stock holding areas ?  The only preset that I have
found is under highways/barriers/wall which seems somewhat
counter-intuitive and makes no differentiation on function.  Are there
better tags which I have failed to discover?


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[HOT] HOT Digest, Vol 59, Issue 10 Message 5

[Andrew Patterson]

Blake

You are others have been discussing the tagging of buildings and open
areas, and I have been recently plotting areas in the Sudan - Juba project
which are site compounds which are either residential compounds and
business enclosures.  In more rural areas, similar rectangular compounds
might be stock holding areas ?  The only preset that I have found is under
highways/barriers/wall which seems somewhat counter-intuitive and makes no
differentiation on function.  Are there better tags which I have failed to
discover?


Andrew


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Re: [HOT] Norwegian mapathon - calling out for validators

[Pete Masters]

Also, you could try this for finding local people

http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/oooc

Pete

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To: From: Anders Anker-Rasch 
Date: 16/01/2015 09:03AMSubject: [HOT] Norwegian mapathon - calling out for validators
Dear all,I'm hosting a mapathon for members of Engineers Without Borders at my employers premises on the 20 of january, 
starting 1700 CET. Most of the members have participated in a briefing of the concept and ideas behind OSM, but the majority are completely fresh when it comes to mapping. However, they are motivated and know their way around technical software of all kinds, so I'm positive this will work out well. I will start with the basics of creating OSM-accounts and installing JOSM/using ID, so I expect the first tasks to be finished by roughly 1830 CET.
We need help with validating the tasks as they finish. If you could spare a couple minutes helping with this, it would be greatly appreciated as we need our new mappers :-)
The task and instructions:http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/836
Please, being that most of them are new to OSM and this work, could you add comments on each task when validating, tagging with their username so they get some sort of feedback. IMHO vital to get them on the right track.
I'm at Skype during the event if you want to get a hold of me. (Or email / FB for that matter.)
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Re: [HOT] Mapping Northern Nigeria ?

[Jeremy G]

Hi everyone,

Thanks for your contributions ! After carefully reading you, I assume that
as long as there isn’t any specific need expressed by NGOs on the
field, the most urgent task would be to complete the road network. As
indicated by Rafael, we might start by the existing tasks and set up a new
task for Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states.

Is that correct ?

Best,

Jeremy

2015-01-15 21:44 GMT+01:00 Enock Seth Nyamador :

>  Hi Jeremy,
>
> I support the idea and project. I will dedicate my time in mapping this to
> help my West African neighbor.
>
> Blake, am interested. Will contact you off list.
>
> Regards.
>
>
> On 01/15/2015 07:15 PM, Jorieke Vyncke wrote:
>
> Don't have time to help out now with this, but I like the idea!
> Just a small remark : recently we got high resolution imagery for whole
> Cameroon from DigitalGlobe. And in the far north along the border with
> Nigera they face the same problems
> ,
> and Nigerian refugees are coming too... So it might be an idea to start
> over there? I now a bunch of ngo's are working in the far north, like
> French Red Cross, GIZ and Unicef.
>
>  Good luck!
>
>  Jorieke
>
>
> 2015-01-15 23:03 GMT+06:00 Blake Girardot :
>
>> Hi Jeremy,
>>
>> I support the project idea and am glad to help with creating, documenting
>> and managing projects in the Tasking Manger (which is not the hardest part
>> of a project like this) for whomever would like to manage the overall
>> project.
>>
>> The first step would be to work out the licensing issues with the imagery
>> and it needs to be put on a TMS server so we can use it in iD and JOSM.
>>
>> We have a process for imagery that I am not familiar with except that I
>> know requests always exceed availability in terms of imagery available,
>> hosting and bandwidth to make it available and people power to get it it
>> all arraigned.
>>
>> It seems like the availability is taken care of, not by Amnesty
>> International, but by their imagery provider, DigitalGlobe who is very
>> generous with our HOT mapping needs is my understanding, so I think they
>> are receptive to licensing for our use but would have to specifically grant
>> us permission to use the imagery they provided to AI as it does not look to
>> me like AI's current usage rights would allow us to use it. Plus we would
>> need the georeferenced hi-res source imagery that AI is not providing. Then
>> the hosting issue.
>>
>> But the whole process is something even a fairly new HOT community member
>> can give a try if you (or anyone) is interested. It will just take a bit
>> longer as you will have to learn the process as well as go through it :)
>>
>> If you (or anyone) is interested, I am happy to help, I want to learn the
>> process myself anyway. Just contact me off list and let me know.
>>
>> And of course, this is just my opinion and understanding, I could be
>> missing something totally.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Blake
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 1/15/2015 12:06 PM, Jeremy G wrote:
>>
>>>  Hi,
>>>
>>> After the attacks of Boko Haram in Northern Nigeria this january, a
>>> similar reaction as in Gaza (mapping before/after with the help of
>>> appropriate aerial images) could be appropriate to help build a precise
>>> evaluation of the damages.
>>>
>>> As a fairly new/unexperienced HOT contributor, I couldn't find any
>>> indication of such a project. Is it on track already, or is it planned ?
>>>
>>> Some aerial images released from Amnesty International :
>>>
>>> https://adam.amnesty.org/asset-bank/action/search?attribute_603=Nigeria+Satellite+Images+January+2015
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Jeremy
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[HOT] Norwegian mapathon - calling out for validators

[Anders Anker-Rasch]

Dear all, 

I'm hosting a mapathon for members of Engineers Without
Borders at my employers premises on the 20 of january, starting 1700 CET. 
[1] 

Most of the members have participated in a briefing of the concept
and ideas behind OSM, but the majority are completely fresh when it comes
to mapping. However, they are motivated and know their way around technical
software of all kinds, so I'm positive this will work out well. I will
start with the basics of creating OSM-accounts and installing JOSM/using
ID, so I expect the first tasks to be finished by roughly 1830 CET. 

We
need help with validating the tasks as they finish. If you could spare a
couple minutes helping with this, it would be greatly appreciated as we
need our new mappers :-) 

The task and instructions:


http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/836 

Please, being that most of them are
new to OSM and this work, could you add comments on each task when
validating, tagging with their username so they get some sort of feedback.
IMHO vital to get them on the right track. 

I'm at SKYPE during the event
if you want to get a hold of me. (Or email / FB for that matter.)  

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