Re: [HOT] Starting OSM community in Egypt

[Luswata David]

Hi Nermin,

Good to see your efforts get this far and indeed, the wider HOT and OSM
Community would be glad to assist in any way possible. Keep up the good
work in Egypt and do not hesitate to call on us whenever need for
additional support to OSM Egypt efforts arises.

Best of luck,

David.

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 8:16 AM, Nermin El-Sherif <
nermin.elsheri...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear OSM people
> Dear Mikel
>
> After being a volunteer in the OSM Summit in Brussels, I feel I got the
> chance to meet fellow mappers and I felt inspired by the momentum.
>
> I just wanted to share with you some good news, today we are starting an
> OSM mapathon to map the city of Luxor and its extensions in the German
> University in Cairo (where I work as a teaching assistant). I took the
> chance of the lack of any proper map of the city to introduce OSM to 50
> architecture students that I hope the constitute the begining of a bigger
> OSM community in Egypt.
> David Luswata has helped me in brainstorming for this event, he also
> recommended me send this email so that you are all updated.
>
> I will keep you posted with how our event and training goes
> Good vibes from Egypt
> Nermin
> [image: Inline image 1]
>



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Re: [HOT] What is practical when mapping using smartphones?

[john whelan]

Interesting possibilities here.  IOS apparently has Go Map!!

Thanks

Cheerio John

On 23 February 2017 at 10:33, joost schouppe 
wrote:

> This is also possible with Mapcontrib, which works just fine on mobile.
> The scope is limited to what the mapcontrib instance has pre-defined.
>
> In this example, you are prompted for surface tags for untagged roads:
>
> https://www.mapcontrib.xyz/t/743004
>
> Editing only possible if you connect your OSM account using the smiley
> face.
>
> The tool is under active development, and it looks like right now only way
> centroids are shown, in stead of the previous version where the ways
> themselves were shown. I'll make an issue for that.
> (see https://github.com/MapContrib/MapContrib/issues)
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Re: [HOT] What is practical when mapping using smartphones?

[joost schouppe]

This is also possible with Mapcontrib, which works just fine on mobile.
The scope is limited to what the mapcontrib instance has pre-defined.

In this example, you are prompted for surface tags for untagged roads:

https://www.mapcontrib.xyz/t/743004

Editing only possible if you connect your OSM account using the smiley face.

The tool is under active development, and it looks like right now only way
centroids are shown, in stead of the previous version where the ways
themselves were shown. I'll make an issue for that.
(see https://github.com/MapContrib/MapContrib/issues)



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Re: [HOT] Leaving my Missing Maps job

[Rebecca Firth]

A huge loss to Missing Maps, and some very difficult boots to fill. Very
grateful for the huge amount you've done far above and beyond to make the
Missing Maps partnership what it is today!

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 7:21 PM, Clifford Snow 
wrote:

> Pete,
> Thanks for all your efforts to make Missing Maps a great resource and
> congratulations on your new job.
>
> Best,
> Clifford Snow
>
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 9:19 AM, Pete Masters 
> wrote:
>
>> Hello all, I hope you are well...
>>
>> Apologies for using the mailing list to send a personal message, but I
>> feel like (and hope) it isn't inappropriate.
>>
>> My time as coordinator for Missing Maps at MSF is coming to an end - last
>> week I accepted a new position within MSF working on innovation process and
>> how we better approach field problems and opportunities. I wanted to let
>> this community know personally for a few different reasons
>>
>> Firstly, to say thanks for the education. It has been an absolute
>> pleasure to work with such a varied bunch of dedicated, passionate and
>> clever people. I have been an MSF fanboy for a long time and I am now a HOT
>> and OSM fanboy too. My job over the past two and a half years has been to
>> try, as much as possible, to find the overlaps and opportunities between
>> these two (very different) organisations and communities. As I hope you
>> have noticed, I have tried to connect the dots between what the HOT and
>> Missing Maps community can do for MSF and the impact that that volunteering
>> has on real people (both our staff in the field and our patients).  What
>> you probably don't know is that I also evangelise HOT / OSM within MSF -
>> not just for the mapping, but for the principles of openness and teamwork
>> and sharing that make mapping and collaborating on such a scale possible.
>>
>> Secondly, because you should know that what you have accomplished during
>> this past two and a half years through HOT activations and Missing Maps
>> projects is pretty unprecedented in MSF. Operational people and medical
>> people within MSF now *expect* to be able to rely on Missing Maps and HOT
>> to deliver data for decision making in the places we work. The quality of
>> your work and the dedication you show (often at very short notice) has
>> taken the project from a suspiciously viewed, disruptive, unorthodox and
>> often misunderstood project in MSF into a tool that the people delivering
>> aid on the ground value and want. That's huge.
>>
>> Thirdly, I appreciate that there are massive challenges ahead. Discussion
>> started by Fred on validation is high up that list. As is the scale of the
>> supply and demand from organisations like MSF. As is how we leverage the
>> data these organisations are collecting on the ground as part of their
>> day-to-day to enrich the OSM database (but including how we do that in a
>> resposible and sustainable way). I have no doubt that together we (I fully
>> intend to stay a part of the HOT community despite the change in day job)
>> can address these challenges and whatever comes after. I would like to
>> offer this opportunity to feed back to me any thoughts you may have on the
>> future of Missing Maps and MSF or any other feedback you may have.
>>
>> Lastly, there is going to be a very cool job available at MSF UK. Not an
>> easy job by any means (the phrase jack of all trades doesn't do it
>> justice), but a massively fulfilling one. Knowing the talent available
>> amongst you, I'd strongly encourage you to take a look when the job is
>> advertised.
>>
>> That's it really. It's not goodbye by any means and I look forward to
>> continuing these discussions beyond the end of my MSF Missing Maps job...
>> Apologies for the lack of brevity!
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Pete
>>
>>
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Re: [HOT] note to Project Managers: Highway=road

[Ralf Stephan]

Accepting highway:road goes contrary to all related threads I read on this
list.

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 12:02 PM Paul Norman  wrote:

> On 2/22/2017 2:42 PM, john whelan wrote:
> >
> > "If you are unsure of what tag to assign to a road, use the
> > provisional highway=road tag."
> >
> > Yes but many routing systems ignore this these.  When we mapped with
> > GPS traces we used highway=road because you didn't know if it was a
> > motorway or a footway with steps and that's why many routing systems
> > ignore them and JOSM validation flags them.
>
>
> highway=road is designed for when you don't know enough about a road.
> The instructions seem correct. If a routing system ignores it, file a
> bug report with the router.
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Re: [HOT] note to Project Managers: Highway=road

[Paul Norman]

On 2/22/2017 2:42 PM, john whelan wrote:


"If you are unsure of what tag to assign to a road, use the 
provisional highway=road tag."


Yes but many routing systems ignore this these.  When we mapped with 
GPS traces we used highway=road because you didn't know if it was a 
motorway or a footway with steps and that's why many routing systems 
ignore them and JOSM validation flags them.



highway=road is designed for when you don't know enough about a road. 
The instructions seem correct. If a routing system ignores it, file a 
bug report with the router.


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