[HOT] Request: Volunteer very experienced in OSM administrative boundary conflation

[Blake Girardot]

Hi all,

HOT (Helen Campbell from NetHope and myself really are looking for
this project) is looking for someone who is very experienced in OSM
Admin Boundary conflation and OSM relations. Knowing a little bit of
other GIS tools would also be very helpful.

There is possibility of importing of data, but the initial project is
to get out OSM boundaries and conflate them with 3rd party boundary
data to determine which is most up to date and accurate and then turn
that data over to our partner for their use in humanitarian work in
the Balkans.

If an import of data or conflation of data to provide OSM updated
administrative boundaries for country is possible and makes sense, the
full data import process will be followed as a separate project, in
consultation through the OSM Imports email list and Import wiki
required documentation.

We are looking for a volunteer to really drive this project and help
sort out workflows and best practices or at least lessons learned, in
the process and document the process at its completion.

I estimate that on a volunteer basis this project will last about 1
month (about 50 admin boundaries to conflate)..

Helen from NetHOPE asked me to add:

"Yes for sure - please mention that its for supporting the {EU}
refugee crisis too!  And you could also mention that this is
frequently an issue in humanitarian response, so having it all
documented will be a huge leap forward for the humanitarian
community!"


So if feel you have the experience and the time to dedicate to the
project, please get in touch with me directly.

Regards,
Blake

Blake Girardot
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Vice President, HOT Board of Directors
skype: jblakegirardot
HOT Core Team Contact: i...@hotosm.org

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Re: [HOT] Maps.Me in Tanzania

[joost schouppe]

In case you missed it (it was in the WeeklyOSM), you can now create an RSS
feed (or visualize) with changesets by editor using one of Simon Poole's
tools:

http://simon04.dev.openstreetmap.org/whodidit/

The only thing is that you have to zoom in to an unreasonably high zoom to
be able to get a result. (probably as the tool is built with people
watching their very local area)
There might be a way around using the RSS. I used to collect similar RSS
feeds to a Google Spreadsheat using IFTTT, which is really quite
straightforward.



2016-04-20 19:46 GMT+02:00 Janet Chapman :

> Thank you so much Blake, Maps.Me is brilliant, just trying to work out the
> best way to ensure we get as accurate data as possible as most people in
> rural Tanzania are mapping onto pretty blank canvases...
>
> Janet
> > Subject: Re: [HOT] Maps.Me in Tanzania
> > To: joost.schou...@gmail.com; j.chap...@tanzdevtrust.org
> > CC: julianha...@gmail.com; hot@openstreetmap.org;
> emramanauska...@googlemail.com
> > From: bgirar...@gmail.com
> > Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 15:02:26 +0200
>
> >
> >
> > 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
> > >  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  > > >:
> > >
> > > 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 
> > >
> > > 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
> > > . 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 

Re: [HOT] Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web Editor

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

I am really coming to the conclusion that everything might just want
to take a uri to an xml document as much as possible if it is just a
list of something that can be put in xml easily.

then we could have different, specific checks, customized for our use
cases and just by changing a url paramter to iD (or any software) load
them. Granted I have no idea how the current checks are handled,
changed or extended, it might just be a .js that could also take a
.json file instead of "hard coded" list of checks.

This is somewhat like the "presets" issue we are working on, how to
easily pass custom set of presets for specific and general uses and i
think by uri is the easiest, least disruptive way to support extending
or customizing many config items.

cheers
blake



Blake Girardot
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Vice President, HOT Board of Directors
skype: jblakegirardot
HOT Core Team Contact: i...@hotosm.org


On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Aaron Young  wrote:
> My suggestion was a tick box in the "map data" pane to turn QA elements 
> on/off.  I like your suggestion during save as well.  My focus is 
> predominately on road names in OSM so improving that visually is a priority 
> for me.
>
> -Aaron.
>
>> On May 17, 2016, at 08:08, Blake Girardot  wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Aaron Young  wrote:
>>> I actually communicated with Bryan yesterday about a small QA toolset for 
>>> iD.  It's my understanding that using tools like keep right is preferable 
>>> but if iD had a few basic QA tools I believe data quality would increase 
>>> overall and you would get more users taking interest in QA efforts overall. 
>>>  My suggestion was to halo/highlight roads that did not have a name tag.  
>>> 3-4 other simple QA functions would be great (non-squared buildings, 
>>> disconnected roads, duplicate polygons/ways, etc).  It would prevent some 
>>> beginner mistakes from persisting in mapathons/HOT tasks.
>>>
>>> -Aaron.
>>
>> Good suggestion.
>>
>> There is a good basic error checking in iD now that I try and
>> highlight, "check for warnings when you save, here is what they look
>> like". if we could just enhance that some it would make a big
>> difference like you say.
>>
>> I would not check for missing street names though, most of the HOT
>> mapping and Missing Maps mapping, we can not enter street name, so
>> people if possible will be specifically entering those at a later
>> time.
>>
>> so I would rather not highlight that as an error for the many who
>> remotely map as it is not really an error, just mapped for refinement
>> later.
>>
>> no tags on area (buildings), primary roads that connect to tracks etc,
>> square check like you say and others I am not thinking about can be
>> actual potential errors so I would like to remind folks to look at
>> those twice.
>>
>> cheers
>> blake
>>
>>
>>
>>>
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  3. Re: Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web
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 Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 14:59:26 +0200
 From: "Blake Girardot HOT/OSM" 
 To: HOT 
 Subject: [HOT] Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web
   Editor
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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

 Hi Everyone!

 HOT is putting together a list of possible improvements or changes to
 the default OSM web editor iD that might help improve and ease typical
 HOT and Missing Maps OSM editing. As part of that process we would
 like 

Re: [HOT] Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web Editor

[Aaron Young]

My suggestion was a tick box in the "map data" pane to turn QA elements on/off. 
 I like your suggestion during save as well.  My focus is predominately on road 
names in OSM so improving that visually is a priority for me.

-Aaron.

> On May 17, 2016, at 08:08, Blake Girardot  wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Aaron Young  wrote:
>> I actually communicated with Bryan yesterday about a small QA toolset for 
>> iD.  It's my understanding that using tools like keep right is preferable 
>> but if iD had a few basic QA tools I believe data quality would increase 
>> overall and you would get more users taking interest in QA efforts overall.  
>> My suggestion was to halo/highlight roads that did not have a name tag.  3-4 
>> other simple QA functions would be great (non-squared buildings, 
>> disconnected roads, duplicate polygons/ways, etc).  It would prevent some 
>> beginner mistakes from persisting in mapathons/HOT tasks.
>> 
>> -Aaron.
> 
> Good suggestion.
> 
> There is a good basic error checking in iD now that I try and
> highlight, "check for warnings when you save, here is what they look
> like". if we could just enhance that some it would make a big
> difference like you say.
> 
> I would not check for missing street names though, most of the HOT
> mapping and Missing Maps mapping, we can not enter street name, so
> people if possible will be specifically entering those at a later
> time.
> 
> so I would rather not highlight that as an error for the many who
> remotely map as it is not really an error, just mapped for refinement
> later.
> 
> no tags on area (buildings), primary roads that connect to tracks etc,
> square check like you say and others I am not thinking about can be
> actual potential errors so I would like to remind folks to look at
> those twice.
> 
> cheers
> blake
> 
> 
> 
>> 
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>>>  2. Re: Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web
>>> Editor (Nicholas Doiron)
>>>  3. Re: Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web
>>> Editor (Courtney Clark)
>>>  4. Re: Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web
>>> Editor (Blake Girardot HOT/OSM)
>>>  5. Re: Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web
>>> Editor (john whelan)
>>>  6. Re: Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web
>>> Editor (Courtney Clark)
>>>  7. Re: Moving the focus to JOSM in mapathons (Ben Abelshausen)
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> Message: 1
>>> Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 14:59:26 +0200
>>> From: "Blake Girardot HOT/OSM" 
>>> To: HOT 
>>> Subject: [HOT] Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web
>>>   Editor
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>>>   
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>>> 
>>> Hi Everyone!
>>> 
>>> HOT is putting together a list of possible improvements or changes to
>>> the default OSM web editor iD that might help improve and ease typical
>>> HOT and Missing Maps OSM editing. As part of that process we would
>>> like to get ideas from the greater HOT and Missing Maps community.
>>> 
>>> A few things already on the list and near the top of priorities for HOT are:
>>> 
>>> * A building tool that would make drawing squared up (and round)
>>> buildings just a few clicks (this is close to being done already)
>>> 
>>> * Customizable presets for typical or special HOT/Missing Maps
>>> projects (already in process, but not close to done)
>>> 
>>> * Support for switching between two imagery sources (this is close to
>>> being done already)
>>> 
>>> But we would love to hear more ideas and feedback from you about ways
>>> that iD could better help support HOT and Missing Maps type of mapping
>>> projects as well as very very new OSM mappers that often work on our
>>> projects.
>>> 
>>> Please let us know things you think iD might be able to do to help new
>>> mappers or mappers that work on HOT / Missing Maps projects.
>>> 
>>> Obviously there is limited development time available so most things
>>> will not be done in the short or medium term, but let us see together
>>> if there are any quick wins we might be able to identify.
>>> 

Re: [HOT] Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web Editor

[Blake Girardot]

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Aaron Young  wrote:
> I actually communicated with Bryan yesterday about a small QA toolset for iD. 
>  It's my understanding that using tools like keep right is preferable but if 
> iD had a few basic QA tools I believe data quality would increase overall and 
> you would get more users taking interest in QA efforts overall.  My 
> suggestion was to halo/highlight roads that did not have a name tag.  3-4 
> other simple QA functions would be great (non-squared buildings, disconnected 
> roads, duplicate polygons/ways, etc).  It would prevent some beginner 
> mistakes from persisting in mapathons/HOT tasks.
>
> -Aaron.

Good suggestion.

There is a good basic error checking in iD now that I try and
highlight, "check for warnings when you save, here is what they look
like". if we could just enhance that some it would make a big
difference like you say.

I would not check for missing street names though, most of the HOT
mapping and Missing Maps mapping, we can not enter street name, so
people if possible will be specifically entering those at a later
time.

so I would rather not highlight that as an error for the many who
remotely map as it is not really an error, just mapped for refinement
later.

no tags on area (buildings), primary roads that connect to tracks etc,
square check like you say and others I am not thinking about can be
actual potential errors so I would like to remind folks to look at
those twice.

cheers
blake



>
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>>   1. Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web Editor
>>  (Blake Girardot HOT/OSM)
>>   2. Re: Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web
>>  Editor (Nicholas Doiron)
>>   3. Re: Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web
>>  Editor (Courtney Clark)
>>   4. Re: Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web
>>  Editor (Blake Girardot HOT/OSM)
>>   5. Re: Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web
>>  Editor (john whelan)
>>   6. Re: Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web
>>  Editor (Courtney Clark)
>>   7. Re: Moving the focus to JOSM in mapathons (Ben Abelshausen)
>>
>>
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 14:59:26 +0200
>> From: "Blake Girardot HOT/OSM" 
>> To: HOT 
>> Subject: [HOT] Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web
>>Editor
>> Message-ID:
>>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>>
>> Hi Everyone!
>>
>> HOT is putting together a list of possible improvements or changes to
>> the default OSM web editor iD that might help improve and ease typical
>> HOT and Missing Maps OSM editing. As part of that process we would
>> like to get ideas from the greater HOT and Missing Maps community.
>>
>> A few things already on the list and near the top of priorities for HOT are:
>>
>> * A building tool that would make drawing squared up (and round)
>> buildings just a few clicks (this is close to being done already)
>>
>> * Customizable presets for typical or special HOT/Missing Maps
>> projects (already in process, but not close to done)
>>
>> * Support for switching between two imagery sources (this is close to
>> being done already)
>>
>> But we would love to hear more ideas and feedback from you about ways
>> that iD could better help support HOT and Missing Maps type of mapping
>> projects as well as very very new OSM mappers that often work on our
>> projects.
>>
>> Please let us know things you think iD might be able to do to help new
>> mappers or mappers that work on HOT / Missing Maps projects.
>>
>> Obviously there is limited development time available so most things
>> will not be done in the short or medium term, but let us see together
>> if there are any quick wins we might be able to identify.
>>
>> Also please share your feedback on things you had problems with or saw
>> other mappers having problems with even if you do not have a
>> suggestion for how to actually address those issues.
>>
>> We will then take all those ideas and working with the iD Github
>> repository issue/feature tracking make some requests to the iD
>> developer. Yes, I said "developer" as in 1 person who does the bulk
>> (not all, but most) of the iD maintenance and 

Re: [HOT] Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web Editor

[Aaron Young]

I actually communicated with Bryan yesterday about a small QA toolset for iD.  
It's my understanding that using tools like keep right is preferable but if iD 
had a few basic QA tools I believe data quality would increase overall and you 
would get more users taking interest in QA efforts overall.  My suggestion was 
to halo/highlight roads that did not have a name tag.  3-4 other simple QA 
functions would be great (non-squared buildings, disconnected roads, duplicate 
polygons/ways, etc).  It would prevent some beginner mistakes from persisting 
in mapathons/HOT tasks.

-Aaron.

> On May 17, 2016, at 06:00, hot-requ...@openstreetmap.org wrote:
> 
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> Today's Topics:
> 
>   1. Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web Editor
>  (Blake Girardot HOT/OSM)
>   2. Re: Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web
>  Editor (Nicholas Doiron)
>   3. Re: Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web
>  Editor (Courtney Clark)
>   4. Re: Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web
>  Editor (Blake Girardot HOT/OSM)
>   5. Re: Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web
>  Editor (john whelan)
>   6. Re: Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web
>  Editor (Courtney Clark)
>   7. Re: Moving the focus to JOSM in mapathons (Ben Abelshausen)
> 
> 
> --
> 
> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 14:59:26 +0200
> From: "Blake Girardot HOT/OSM" 
> To: HOT 
> Subject: [HOT] Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web
>Editor
> Message-ID:
>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
> 
> Hi Everyone!
> 
> HOT is putting together a list of possible improvements or changes to
> the default OSM web editor iD that might help improve and ease typical
> HOT and Missing Maps OSM editing. As part of that process we would
> like to get ideas from the greater HOT and Missing Maps community.
> 
> A few things already on the list and near the top of priorities for HOT are:
> 
> * A building tool that would make drawing squared up (and round)
> buildings just a few clicks (this is close to being done already)
> 
> * Customizable presets for typical or special HOT/Missing Maps
> projects (already in process, but not close to done)
> 
> * Support for switching between two imagery sources (this is close to
> being done already)
> 
> But we would love to hear more ideas and feedback from you about ways
> that iD could better help support HOT and Missing Maps type of mapping
> projects as well as very very new OSM mappers that often work on our
> projects.
> 
> Please let us know things you think iD might be able to do to help new
> mappers or mappers that work on HOT / Missing Maps projects.
> 
> Obviously there is limited development time available so most things
> will not be done in the short or medium term, but let us see together
> if there are any quick wins we might be able to identify.
> 
> Also please share your feedback on things you had problems with or saw
> other mappers having problems with even if you do not have a
> suggestion for how to actually address those issues.
> 
> We will then take all those ideas and working with the iD Github
> repository issue/feature tracking make some requests to the iD
> developer. Yes, I said "developer" as in 1 person who does the bulk
> (not all, but most) of the iD maintenance and development, Bryan
> Housel. You can imagine he gets pulled in a lot of different
> directions by the greater OSM community and he has to balance a lot of
> needs and concerns. But Bryan has always been very open to suggestions
> and feedback and concerns about the iD editor and that is why it is
> the great tool it is.
> 
> The iD OSM Web Editor will always first and foremost be a general OSM
> editor so some things will just not be possible, but we are quite sure
> we can find some things that will help HOT/Missing Maps and be of use
> to the greater OSM mapping community as well. Our goal is to identify
> those things and help get them implemented through feedback and
> testing and maybe even some code contributions if anyone is interested
> in doing that.
> 
> So as I said, please, if you have a few minutes to share some thoughts
> on the iD editor it would be most appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> Blake
> 
> 
> Blake Girardot

Re: [HOT] Moving the focus to JOSM in mapathons

[Ben Abelshausen]

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 10:23 AM, Claire Halleux 
wrote:

> The only issue is that there's always at least one or few participants
> without updated antivirus software and we always end up with at least one
> infected USB stick.


There are also write-protected USB sticks, meaning with a hardware switch
to write-protect them. An example here:

http://store.kanguru.com/products/kanguru-flashblu30

Met vriendelijke groeten,
Best regards,

Ben Abelshausen
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