[OSM-talk] OSM risk assessment models
Hi, If some one from the list can spare some time, it will be appreciated to send/point me to some examples of risk assessment models developed basing on OSM data/tools or even QGIS software. Risk assessment basing on any thematic area/topic Thanks. Yours Truly Douglas Ssebaggala Musaazi Mobile: +256-772-422524 @douglaseru http://www.mappingday.com/ http://www.twitter.com/mapuganda Keep In Touch ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] OSM in the energy sector
To the OSM community, Last year in July, the energy sector GIS working group organised a workshop where we gave a presentation about mapping day Uganda and OSM. http://mappingday.com/content/mapping-and-gis-energy-sector-workshop 3 months later (October), the Energy Sector GIS Working Group got an award for the best Map at a GIS conference in Naivasha, Kenya. http://www.energyprogramme.or.ug/giz-uganda-gets-award-for-best-gis-map/ The guess is right :) for the winning map, it has/used OSM as a base-map!! as a result from the workshop and the presentation we gave. http://www.gis-uganda.de/Energy-GIS/ In Uganda, this week (23rd-27th September), has some activities to mark the energy week, and we shall meet once again this year with the Energy sector GIS Working group in the coming days. If there are some other related examples of how osm can be and has been used in the energy sector, besides ITO http://www.itoworld.com/map/group/16 Please share some more links, on or offlist. Thanks. Yours Truly Douglas Ssebaggala Musaazi Mobile: +256-772-422524 http://www.mappingday.com/ http://www.twitter.com/mapuganda http://www.mountbatten.net/ https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ug Keep In Touch ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] iD Editor live on OpenStreetMap
Great work!! let's go ahead and use it. Without selecting an option from the edit tab, potlatch 2 is the default editor, still. Yours Truly Douglas Ssebaggala Musaazi Mobile: +256-772-422524 http://www.mountbatten.net/ http://www.pamoya.com/node/13275 http://www.mappingday.com/ http://www.twitter.com/mapuganda http://www.linux.or.ug/ Keep In Touch ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] 3 months of OSM
The links for tagging, naming features, and the wiki are detailed enough and have most of the information that any user might be interested in, and i had a thought that some features could have more priority than others to map to OSM. For example Schools, Health centers, Roads, Landuse, businesses, housing, as the list continues, such that the wiki has features with the most priority that are common and relevant atleast in every country. Yours Truly Douglas Ssebaggala Musaazi Mobile: +256-772-422524 http://www.mountbatten.net/ http://www.pamoya.com/node/13275 http://www.mappingday.com/ http://www.twitter.com/mapuganda http://www.linux.or.ug/ Keep In Touch ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] 3 months of OSM
Thank you Serge and Piere, You are right, sorry if i seemed subjective, i had also agreed with Martin to map everything that is of someone's interest. And the wiki is there for every one to look for features that are of interest to them, like the young German contributor whom Serge mentioned Serge also says I don't care that much about schools- I'm not a student nor do I have children. Am not looking at students or parents, but i presume there might be Public/Government organisations that might wish to use the OSM platform to monitor and manage Education, or an international organisation like UNICEF. Am not a doctor neither, but i think the World Health Organisation could pick an interest in managing health facilities. The German contributor could have his/her information liked by the German Electricity board, and they can release data (shapefiles) to upload to OSM. The examples are endless, and i believe every OSM contributor is doing a good thing with whatever edits they are making. As i had mentioned just wanted to get different ideas on this thread, from the list about all that is worthy of mapping, and glad that i got (and that am getting) the answers .___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] 3 months of osm
Hi all, It's really been quite a long time without keeping in contact with the osm list(s), but osm activities have been taking place since February when i last posted here, about a mapping day at the Uganda Christian University in Mukono, where the availed imagery was used by the students to map features at thier University here. The imagery quite alligned with the gps tracks at 3meters accuracy, and it's the imagery that was mostly used. We communicated with Andy Allan, as we were to map the new transportation network of pioneer easy buses operating in the capital city of Uganda Kampala, and some of the collected data can be clearly visible on the transport layer of osm, here too. In April, when the OSM database was undergoing maintenance we had scheduled another mapping day on the same date as the database maintenance, with Kibo foundation in Uganda, so mapping never took place. More activities are to take place, and all updates (early or late) will be shared with the list. This is all in a drive to make OSM a usable map for every one, and also to provide freely accessible, accurate data that can be used for and by various organisations, individuals, and countries. Just wondering could some one share all categories of information that can be mapped to osm? Yours Truly Douglas Ssebaggala Musaazi Mobile: +256-772-422524 http://www.mountbatten.net/ http://www.pamoya.com/node/13275 http://www.mappingday.com/ http://www.twitter.com/mapuganda http://www.linux.or.ug/ Keep In Touch ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] Bing imagery and the remap campaign
Hi all.. I think this is an opportunity that met a prepared mind. Just as we were organizing a mapping reflection day at the Uganda Christian University in Mukono this saturday 11th Feb 2012, we realized that the bing satellite imagery was available for this area (http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=0.35509lon=32.740369zoom=18layers=M) unlike the last four months when the students worked with potlatch with a blank back ground. We would like to show gratitude for this great achievement and thank bing and OSM for availing the clear imagery , we hope to map better. We shall also use this opportunity for the participants to re-map their previous edits and correct those that could have been mapped wrongly, and also agree to the new osm odbl licence. There were some slight difficulties with downloading the bing satellite image via walking papers, but there was also an improvement for every day that we tried again, hope it is minor, because it could download very well, but have some images not being displayed for that area in the pdf file, though others were perfectly fine. Yours Truly Douglas Ssebaggala Musaazi Mobile: +256-772-422524 http://www.mountbatten.net/ http://www.pamoya.com/node/13275 http://www.mappingday.com/ http://www.twitter.com/mapuganda http://www.linux.or.ug/ Keep In Touch ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] Details about the edits in Uganda and the OSM tasking manager
Greetings, Great thanks to all the comments about the links i sent in the last post, now i can respond to them after some analysis, and also give more details about them; I have picked alot from your replies and learnt that we are doing almost similar tasks, all the OSM editors have advantages and disadvantages, and we shall be using all of them, only that we have lately been inclined towards potlatch because it is easy to use and spot on: what you edit is what you get (WYEWYG) and it enables the practical usage of the internet. Uganda being a low developing country can benefit alot from using the internet and despite the fact that there are various areas without internet connectivity, it (the internet) is growing at a fast pace!!, hence the use of potlatch. The training has just begun and we have started with a few number of people who will be tested with their skills on the mapping days or future projects that will involve http://www.osm.org, then we shall keep on training more interested people. It's a 4 hour training for 2 days in a week for the students in their holiday, am actually surprised to learn that H.O.T carries out a 2day workshop that covers the manual. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=0.29531lon=32.61574zoom=17layers=M This was after the 1st mapping day, with a follow up of 2 months to produce the above output, foot survey and satellite. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=0.348045lon=32.573484zoom=18layers=M 2nd mapping day with some students from Mukono Christian University Uganda (not fully mapped). http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=0.30763lon=32.61526zoom=17layers=M After the 3rd mapping day, work is still in progress, it is a slum area (informal settlement). http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=0.68169lon=34.19327zoom=16layers=M By http://www.osm.org/user/JeffH from Denmark who visited the area and used a gps as well as JOSM. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=0.380935lon=32.558124zoom=18layers=M Done by me (Douglas) local knowledge have lived in this area. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=0.35489lon=32.74168zoom=17layers=M By Kate Adoch she has good local knowledge for the area. We contacted Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com for some assistance about the informal settlements, and he gladly shared with us and connected us to some mappers on the map Kibera project in Kenya http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-1.31202lon=36.78874zoom=17layers=M We will be sharing with the OSM community our activities and documented materials for the better, i think the gates are ok, as explained by Reinier (reinier.battenb...@mountbatten.net), that is how the Ugandan locality and housing is structured, and asJoseph said we may need to include the access key and its attributes. Kate Chapman gave useful links to potlatch as well as other members who advised on using the tasking manager, thanks. We will be working with the tasking tool in our future acts. Coming up is mapping at this area: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=0.315032lon=32.604868zoom=18layers=M it is currently blank, but there is a coca-cola plastic waste collection center that is going to be indicated on OSM with the students we are training, it's newly built so the satellite imagery may not show it. This will be done on Monday 19th December 2011. Yours Truly Douglas Ssebaggala Musaazi Mobile: +256-772-422524 doug...@mappingday.com http://www.mountbatten.net/ http://www.pamoya.com/node/13275 https://twitter.com/mapuganda https://twitter.com/Douglo2011 http://www.linux.or.ug/___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] H.O.T OSM manual and learning OSM in Uganda
Hi all, We have started training some people about how to go about OSM, using the H.O.T training manual. JOSM is a good editor, but was wondering why it's the only one that was included in the manual. Otherwise the manual is concise, we are even including potlatch 2 as one of the training topics, among others and by the end of the training, we hope we would have well skilled people who will be contributing to providing geographical data to the open street world map. Fruits of thought (http://www.fruitsofthought.org) supports the mapping days (http://www.mappingday.com) that are held at given intervals in a year, to introduce mapping and the open street map to the participants, the features mapped on a mapping day can take a while to be fully updated correctly as most of the participants are new to OSM, we hope, after the training we shall have some more people who will have a better understanding of what OSM is all about. Notable edits in some of the selected areas of Uganda include: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=0.29531lon=32.61574zoom=17layers=M http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=0.30763lon=32.61526zoom=17layers=M http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=0.68169lon=34.19327zoom=16layers=M http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=0.380935lon=32.558124zoom=18layers=M http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=0.35489lon=32.74168zoom=17layers=M http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=0.348045lon=32.573484zoom=18layers=M These are just some of the links that can be identified, and is not an exhausted list of all the edits, there might be some that we do not know of, but during the mapping day we covered some of the links above, and in some of the areas correcting and editing features is still in progress. However it is clear that there is more work that needs to be done, but the good part is that the mapping community continues to grow. If you can spare some time and visit the above links, it would be good to have a feed back from you. There is just one link that was edited with JOSM, which can easily be identified, and the rest with potlatch. Yours Truly Douglas Ssebaggala Musaazi Mobile: +256-772-422524 http://www.mountbatten.net/ http://www.pamoya.com/node/13275 https://twitter.com/mapuganda https://twitter.com/Douglo2011 http://www.linux.or.ug/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] bing priorities
Hi, We have included our entries on the wiki, for satellite aerial imagery here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bing/Priorities#Uganda and we hope by the time we organise the next mapping day, to any of those areas we shall have the satellite imagery available. Thanks to Martin and Gregory for the responses provided. Some features may be wrongly represented, but shall be corrected, usually it is the new people we would have introduced to OSM that make those mistakes, but they improve after a while. Yours Truly Douglas Ssebaggala http://www.mountbatten.net http://www.pamoya.com/node/13275 http://www.mappingday.com http://www.openstreetmap.org http://www.linux.or.ug Keep In Touch___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] satellite Imagery missing
Hi..? On Saturday 10th September 2011, we held a mapping day event at Uganda Christian University Mukono in Uganda, where we spread the idea of mapping and updating the Open Street World map as part of the mapping Uganda Initiative at pamoya (http://www.pamoya.com/node/13275), however, the satellite imagery for the area (http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=0.35501lon=32.74088zoom=17layers=M) was not available. We were able to use the walking papers and the g.p.s unit that enabled us to have better accuracy, using potlatch without the satellite imagery was like working while blind folded and we managed to make the edits. We never used Merkaator or JOSM as it was a one day event, and it was an introductory to the 20 participants, so the quickest tools had to be used. I would like to know if there is any other means, or when the satellite image will be available to OSM for such areas. Yours Truly Douglas Ssebaggala Musaazi Mobile: +256-772-422524 http://www.mountbatten.net http://www.pamoya.com/node/13275 http://www.mappingday.com http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=0.292113lon=32.617623zoom=18layers=M http://www.linux.or.ug Keep In Touch ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] Error on uploads again....
Hi, this is Douglas again, from the mapping day event (www.mappingday.com) sponsored by mountbatten (www.mountbatten.net), there was an improvement the last time i reported this error, and let me thank you for your efforts that you made to rectify the problem. However, we are once again experiencing the following errors: http://paperwalking-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/ and http://walkingpapers.org/scan.php?id=gbdch8q8 help us resolve it and we go ahead with our task of mapping Uganda. Thanks ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] walking papers
list admin, or any one... Am Douglas from Kampala- Uganda (East Africa), am experiencing problems with the www.walking-papers.org site: it takes so long to make a print (download) for a specified area. Secondly, we had a mapping day event (www.mappingday.com) at Mountbatten (www.mountbatten.net), and we successfully mapped our location, however we uploaded our scans three days ago but they are still in a queue up to now, the recent successful scans on walkingpapers.org are 16 days old. can you tell us why it takes so long? here is the link: (http://walkingpapers.org/scan.php?id=s9v6s849) A similar problem was also reported on wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:07:23 -0700 by some one at this link to the archive (http://www.mail-archive.com/talk@openstreetmap.org/msg22921.html) Awaiting for your replyThanks ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
