[HOT] Tutorial videos with English, French, Spanish and now Turkish subtitles

[Andrew Wiseman]

Hello,

There are a number of short tutorial videos on the HOT Youtube page that
people might find useful: things like what is HOT, what is Missing Maps,
how to sign up for OSM, how to draw a building or road in iD, how to use
the Tasking Manager, how to host a mapathon and more.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb9506_-6FMHZ3nwn9heri3xjQKrSq1hN

The idea is you can pick and choose which videos you want, then you can
embed them in your website, HOT Task or maybe use for a training.

There are subtitles for the videos in English, Spanish and French and now
subtitles in Turkish for some of the videos!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb9506_-6FMHZ3nwn9heri3xjQKrSq1hN

Click the CC button on the video to turn on subtitles, then the gear to
choose the language.

Feel free to use them, and if you'd like to help subtitle some into other
languages, or know someone who'd be interested, let me know! We used
Amara.org to add the subtitles, it only takes a minute to learn to use and
adds them automatically to the videos. I used it myself to add English and
Spanish, pretty easy!

Thanks,

Andrew Wiseman
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[HOT] Monthly Missing Maps mapathon in Washington, DC starting Oct. 12

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Hey all, if you're in the D.C. area, the George Washington
University's Humanitarian Mapping Society and the American Red Cross are
holding their first monthly OpenStreetMap mapathon for the Missing Maps
project on Wed. Oct. 12 -- including pizza! Hope you can make it!

If you know OSM already, that's great, and it's also a great opportunity to
learn or teach others!  The idea is these will be regular, monthly Missing
Maps events for folks in the D.C. area.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gwu-humanitarian-mapping-society-missing-maps-october-mapathon-tickets-28339524280

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Re: [HOT] JOSM for HOT can someone point me at a basic, tutorial?

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Hi John,

There are a number of other tutorial videos here on the HOT Youtube page
that have subtitles in English, Spanish and some in French:

https://www.youtube.com/user/hotosm/videos

Andrew

On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 7:17 AM, john whelan  wrote:

> The French tutorial is actually very useful.  I'm working in the odd
> corners of Africa at the moment.  The mappers come from all over the world
> often working in maperthons.
>
> I think my hang up is data quality so I mainly do validation these days.
> I think in the last week I've tagged over a hundred untagged ways or
> area=yes, I wouldn't like to say how many highway=road I've retagged in the
> last week but its in the hundreds.  Highway=road unfortunately is the tag
> given to GPS tracks that have been converted into a highway where the
> person who does the conversion doesn't know if there are steps in a
> footpath or if its a motorway.  As a result many of routing programs will
> ignore them.
>
> Another problem is new mappers not completing a tile then other new
> mappers coming along behind and copying the first mappers mistakes.
> Because the tile hasn't been completed even if there is a validator on the
> project it doesn't get validated or corrected so the problems get
> compounded.
>
> Actually another problem I'm seeing is all the highways within a
> landuse=residential being tagged highway=residential.  Fine until you
> realise that the routing software will try to avoid routing traffic down
> backstreets and suddenly there is no routable path across the town.
>
> So in some parts of the map perhaps 30% or more of the work is ignored
> until its retagged and that's what I'm trying to avoid by finding ways to
> make JOSM easier to use.
>
> Blake's videos are great but unfortunately he speaks with an American
> accent.  I find it fairly easy to understand but there are people in the
> world whose first language is English who will have to rewind once or twice
> to catch the words.  Accents are regional, believe it or not some people
> even have problems with my English accent.  Looking at the mappers I'm
> validating the ones with the most problems are those who use English as a
> second language or even just Bing / Google translate it.  The French
> tutorial is much more useful for them as they can cut and paste it into
> Google or Bing translate.
>
> On a side note I'm handholding a Statistics Canada project at the moment
> so any French documentation is very useful to feed back to them.  The
> project is about adding data to OpenStreetMap then doing some stats on the
> result.  The cultures at Stats and OSM are very different but its coming
> along quite nicely albeit a little slower than their project manager would
> like.
>
> Cheerio John
>
> On 2 October 2016 at 04:50, Martin Noblecourt 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> We also have similar tutorial in French (I know, not very helpful here,
>> would it be relevant to translate it?):
>>
>> http://blog.cartong.org/2014/07/24/tuto-digitaliser-sous-ope
>> nstreetmap-avec-le-tasking-manager-et-josm-premiers-pas/
>>
>> Else the video Blake sent is the best we have I think.
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2016 06:47:42 +0200
>> From: Blake Girardot  
>> To: john whelan  
>> Cc: "hot@openstreetmap.org"   
>> 
>> Subject: Re: [HOT] JOSM for HOT can someone point me at a basic
>>  tutorial?
>> Message-ID:
>>   
>> 
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> Far from perfect, but I believe the "JOSM for iD Users" youtube vids
>> covers most of that (might need one on imagery use in JOSM, hopefully
>> it comes across though):
>> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL54o5PaKgnbKU-vXe11cSmmsxIYnL5oDU
>>
>> Feedback from your friend welcome.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Blake
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 3:19 AM, john whelan  
>>  wrote:
>>
>> > So how to install,  how to add remote control and building_tool plugin, 
>> > how> to map a square building, a highway and a landuse=residential.  How 
>> > to> select Bing imagery.>> How to toggle the screen ie use the tab key 
>> > when you lose the stuff on the> right.>> And finally how to upload.  So 
>> > setting the token.>> Yes I know about learnOSM but I have a fairly keen 
>> > mapper who has been told> that JOSM is too complex which is fine except I 
>> > have to clean up after them> with the crossing ways and highways nearly 
>> > meeting when they are quite> capable of doing it themselves and I want 
>> > something basic not how to map a> relationship because that is not what 
>> > most of the HOT stuff is.>> Thanks John>> 
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Re: [HOT] Fwd: QA activities as part of Validation - Build it into the TM

[Andrew Wiseman]

There's been some discussion of this within iD as well:
https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/3130

Andrew

On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Frédéric Rodrigo 
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Issues from Osmose-QA can be fetched and manipulated through API
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmose/api/0.2
>
> More simple, link to right position can be done with URL prams lat/ln :
>
> http://osmose.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/#layer=Mapnik&zoom=16&lat=-29.53332&lon=28.26385
>
> Regards,
> Frédéric
> Co-mainter of Osmose-QA
>
> Le 30/05/2016 à 14:10, Benoit Fournier a écrit :
>
>> Un petit ping sur ce message de la liste HOT, où Dave se demande
>> comment on pourrait lier le Tasking Manager et Osmose (pour remonter
>> les erreurs Osmose dans l'interface TM ? ou pour avoir un lien url
>> vers la zone dans Osmose ?)
>>
>> Benoît
>>
>>
>>
>> -- Forwarded message --
>> From: Dave Corley 
>> Date: Mon, May 30, 2016 at 1:30 PM
>> Subject: [HOT] QA activities as part of Validation - Build it into the TM
>> To: "hot@openstreetmap.org" 
>>
>>
>> Folks,
>>
>> I was thinking about the recent discussions of new mappers,
>> validations and QA. I put together some new tasks for #MapLesotho over
>> the weekend and have linked to Osmose and KeepRight in the tasks as a
>> major element of these tasks is to do a lot of cleanup in addition to
>> the regular tasks of mapping and validation.
>>
>> With all that being said, what came to mind was this. Is there anyway
>> to pull down errors from those 2 sources and have them accessible from
>> within the TM for the tile being worked on, rather than going to those
>> sites and trying to navigate to the same spot on the map.
>>
>> I don't know how easy or difficult something like this would be to do,
>> but if its possible I think it should be looked at as it would make
>> data delivery much more accurate, effective and robust, especially
>> during times of crisis when small errors can have major implications
>> for on the ground personnel.
>>
>> I would chase this myself however I am not techy enough to know how to
>> do it so maybe someone with the right skills might be able to say if
>> this is even possible.
>>
>> Dave
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Re: [HOT] Squared buildings

[Andrew Wiseman]

Maybe someone could build a tool in JOSM to be able to select an area of
buildings and square them all at once? Right now you have to individually
select them and that takes a while, because the Q button won't work if a
node is also selected. Or maybe tweak the functionality of Q so it ignores
nodes?

I was just doing this, manually selecting non-square buildings, for an OSM
exercise in a class I teach, it was very time consuming.

Andrew

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 5:11 PM, John Whelan  wrote:

> Perhaps another question to ask then is is it too complex for new mappers
> to use when mapping buildings?
>
> If we can accept odd shaped buildings that aren't quite the right size
> then fine it is the right tool for the job, but if we want fairly accurate
> building sizes and square corners on squared buildings so population
> estimates can be made then it appears from the results we see that it
> requires more training and a higher standard of mapping than new mappers
> are capable of with the current levels of training.  In other words it
> doesn't matter how good a tool it is or what it is capable of if the new
> mappers don't understand how to use it.
>
> And we still haven't really come to a conclusion about whether having
> squared buildings matters.
>
> Cheerio John
>
> Paul Norman wrote:
>
> It's been stated a few times but since there's still confusion: iD has a
> button to square features. It has had this feature since before it was
> released.
>
> We need to stop wrongly blaming iD, as it's not productive at figuring out
> what to change, and where.
>
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Re: [HOT] OSM before and after

[Andrew Wiseman]

These tools are really cool! What is the date for the before tiles, and is
there a way to specify them?

Andrew

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 11:48 AM, Pierre Béland  wrote:

> Hi Pete,
>
> The Before tile is back in the OSMCompare page. See compare for Gueckedou
> http://pierzen.dev.openstreetmap.org/hot/leaflet/OSM-Compare-before-after.html#14/8.5637/-10.1331
>
> I just corrected the tile link with the new tile url specified in
> map.fosm.org, the OSM fork project that let us compare when we add new
> infos to OSM.
>
> We might have to consider eventually to host a copy of these Before tiles
> somewhere else. If the same Humanitarian style was used for the Before and
> after tiles, it would also make a better map compararizon.
>
>
> Pierre
>
>
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> *Objet :* [HOT] OSM before and after
>
> Hi all, happy new year!
>
> I have used Pierre's website for showing impact of Missing Maps activities
> extensively in the past:
> http://pierzen.dev.openstreetmap.org/hot/leaflet/OSM-Compare-before-after.html#10/27.9083/85.5286
>
> But, for a while now, it has not been working. Does anyone know of an
> alternative that shows a before and after map?
>
> Cheers,
>
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Re: [HOT] How often is the Humanitarian tile set updated?

[Andrew Wiseman]

Thanks! I asked around and got some specifics: Yohan Boniface from France
said said "Every 5 minutes for zooms > 11, once a week for zooms <= 11"

http://twitter.com/informagicien

Andrew

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 5:47 AM, althio  wrote:

> Andrew,
>
> > Wanted to see how often the Humanitarian view/tile set/layer is updated?
> Is
> > it at the same time as everything else, or is it done on some schedule?
>
>
> As far as I know, the rendering tiles for the Humanitarian style are
> updated continuously, same spirit than the default OSM style.
> However, it is hosted on the servers of OSM-France, not
> OSM-Foundation, so maybe you can expect less hardware resources
> behind.
>
> In the end it should be updated:
> - on load/demand
> - after a few minutes
> - depends on the zoom
> - just wait a bit ;)
>
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[HOT] How often is the Humanitarian tile set updated?

[Andrew Wiseman]

Hey all,

Wanted to see how often the Humanitarian view/tile set/layer is updated? Is
it at the same time as everything else, or is it done on some schedule?

Thanks!

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Re: [HOT] Good Twitter chat happening now at #geowebchat on HOT and OSM and Nepal

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On twitter, search for the #geowebchat hashtag

El martes, 5 de mayo de 2015, Tom McDonald  escribió:

> Re: Worth a read.
>
> Where can I read it?
>
> Tom
>
> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Andrew Wiseman  > wrote:
>
>> There's a good conversation happening now, with some good suggestions too
>> -- one person mentioned that many of the tasks are for experienced mappers,
>> so it's hard for newbies to contribute, for example. Worth a read.
>>
>> Andrew
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[HOT] Stats for HOT and OSM in Nepal -- users and editors

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Hi all,

I'm writing a blog post about HOT's work in Nepal, does anyone have numbers
or stats (or how can I find them) on what has been added? Things like
number of users working on HOT tasks, new users, buildings, etc?

I remember seeing some site named for a person (townsend or something?)
with stats that wasn't Overpass-Turbo, but I can't find it now.

Thanks,

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[HOT] Good Twitter chat happening now at #geowebchat on HOT and OSM and Nepal

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There's a good conversation happening now, with some good suggestions too
-- one person mentioned that many of the tasks are for experienced mappers,
so it's hard for newbies to contribute, for example. Worth a read.

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[HOT] List of Mapathons for Nepal for HOT Blog post

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Hi all,

I'm compiling as many Nepal-related OSM events as I can find for a blog
post for HOT, can you please reply with any you have heard of with links,
and ideally some basic info (who held it, how many people, etc.) and photos?

Thanks! The more info you can send, the better the post will be (and
quicker and easier to make!)

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