[HOT] HOT Projects

2014-03-04 Thread AYTOUN RALPH
Hi All, To start, congratulations to all the new voting members, to the newly elected Board and the new Chair. Also to say thank you for a very user friendly system that has been put in place so far. I know you have quite a lot on your plate trying to make sense of the spate of Humanitarian

Re: [HOT] London hack weekend

2014-03-04 Thread Pierre GIRAUD
Hi all, Thanks Katie for paying attention to the tasking manager and willing to contribute. First of all, for your information, the development of the tasking manager will eventually be switched to v2. Hopefully this spring. In priority, we'll try to have the features available in v1 added to

Re: [HOT] Introducting myself + questions about Highway Tag Africa standards

2014-03-04 Thread Mikel Maron
Hi Vincent Welcome! I don't have direct experience of these roads, but from my perspective, sounds like a reasonable and informed approach. Hopefully people working in the region will share their ideas on this. I just wanted to say, that you should also feel free to contact directly other

[HOT] Fwd: [CrisisMappers] Do you have hands-on experience flying UAVs quadcopters?

2014-03-04 Thread nicolas chavent
Hi all, Sorry for the double_emailing for those of you who are subscribed to crisis_mappers, but here's a thread which is of interest for us and surely a topic that deserved our attention. To be tied to Imagery, with perhaps a working group Imagery/Drone ? Best, Nico -- Forwarded message

Re: [HOT] Introducting myself + questions about Highway Tag Africa standards

2014-03-04 Thread Pierre Béland
Hi Vincent, Thanks to come and discuss about this. And I am pleased to have the opportunity to discuss with you and have comments on how usefull are those maps for road navigation. We dont have often some feedback from people travelling in these areas and this is much appreciated. I am also

Re: [HOT] Introducting myself + questions about Highway Tag Africa standards

2014-03-04 Thread Mamadou bassirou THIAM
Hi there, Welcome Vincent and many thanks for your message. Overall, I can confirm your remarks on West African ground. A first clarification to bring is that Highway Tag Africa http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa is actually an initiative, for now. After an active mappy

Re: [HOT] Introducting myself + questions about Highway Tag Africa standards

2014-03-04 Thread Vincent Dawans
Mamadou: Good to know Senegal is on task! Yes, now I see on the Senegal wiki page the same issue I am raising. I think I agree with the comment about using trunk for maybe only the (roads) with the highest quality (at least two lanes of good asphalt) and major topological roles. My take is

Re: [HOT] Introducting myself + questions about Highway Tag Africa standards

2014-03-04 Thread Vincent Dawans
Hi Pierre: Thank you for the pointers to the 2013 discussions. I will look at the archive. I can tell you that from what I have seen on the ground, the Mali activation is definitely a success, in particular if you compare the level of details and accuracy with google maps. I do like the

[HOT] Introducting myself + questions about Highway Tag Africa standards

2014-03-04 Thread Will Skora
Hi Vincent, Welcome :) I honestly don't recall why trunk roads were not included in the highway Africa tags page. As Mikel noted, these standards are elastic and subject to change. You brought up some good points. I do recall that when I first started mapping in Western Africa that the main

Re: [HOT] Introducting myself + questions about Highway Tag Africa standards

2014-03-04 Thread Mamadou bassirou THIAM
+1 For your trunck definition suggestion On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Vincent Dawans dawa...@gmail.com wrote: Mamadou: Good to know Senegal is on task! Yes, now I see on the Senegal wiki page the same issue I am raising. I think I agree with the comment about using trunk for maybe

Re: [HOT] Introducting myself + questions about Highway Tag Africa standards

2014-03-04 Thread nicolas chavent
Bienvenue Vincent ! To keep this thread about Tag classification in Western Africa [trunk] comprehensive of all contributions, I pasted in Will's view which I equally support. I like Will's comment about the dynamic at play here and the fact that more and more trunks are under construction in

Re: [HOT] Fwd: [CrisisMappers] Do you have hands-on experience flying UAVs quadcopters?

2014-03-04 Thread FOFANA BAZO BAGNOUMANA
je me présente, je suis Fofana Bazo du Burkina Faso, j'ai découvert récemment opNenstreetmap lors d'une mission en juillet 2013 conduite par Nicolas Chavent et Alexandra Enache au Burkina Faso et depuis lors je me suis intéressé à openstreetmap. Il faut dire, que je suis géographe en année de

[HOT] Proposition HOT Monthly Cooking

2014-03-04 Thread Pierre Béland
The weekly irc discussion for Mali Activation, last year, was a very dynamic meeting where both HOT contributors, developpers and humanitarians for Mali gathered. This is this way that Nicolas proposed and developped an Imagery Crowdsourcing tool  called Kuona to locate villages in

[HOT] USAID's Development Innovation Ventures - Letter of Interest (Due April 15th)

2014-03-04 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi All, USAID has funding titled Development Innovation Ventures the program focuses on innovation and cost-effectiveness. There are opportunities for both scaling and funding new work. The first step is to write a Letter of Interest (LOI) Funds for NGOs has a good write-up about the program(1)

[HOT] Website Feature Requests

2014-03-04 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi All, Where should these be logged? Is this the right place? https://github.com/hotosm/hotosm-website I was thinking we should have some sort of calendar. Thanks, -Kate ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org

Re: [HOT] Website Feature Requests

2014-03-04 Thread Katie Filbert
On Mar 5, 2014 8:24 AM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote: Hi All, Where should these be logged? Is this the right place? https://github.com/hotosm/hotosm-website I was thinking we should have some sort of calendar. Github issues is where I would look to find things to do. Katie