[HOT] building=house

Looking at several bits of mapping in Africa it seems to be normal to use a rectangle tagged building=house. Would a simple POI tagged building=house be acceptable? Most rendering systems will drop an icon on a tagged POI, they take up a little less room in the database and its faster to drop a P

Re: [HOT] Tasking Manager updated

On 10/17/2014 07:07 AM, Pierre GIRAUD wrote: Among the bug fixes or little improvements, this release's main goal is to prevent JOSM users to send the task boundary to OSM database even if ignore is set which may happen with recent versions of JOSM. JOSM users should now see a link to a GPX fi

Re: [HOT] building=house

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Whenever if is possible to map the building as an area we prefer that system. Houses mapped as nodes only give you a count of the structures, as areas yuo an make further guesses about the population densities and other things based on the area and/or

Re: [HOT] Tasking Manager updated

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Regarding the button move I can't say one way or another. However, the loading of the file manually is a step back and it was done intentionally. The new JOSM does not honor the josm/ignore=true tag anymore and the bounding boxes were inadvertantly b

[HOT] Guidance for Organizing HOT Mapathon

Hi all, I've been mapping for much of the year with HOT and a few years with OSM. I'm looking to start up some local mapathons in the Madison, WI area to hopefully share my expertise and spark some interest in the area, and would appreciate some guidance in organizing one as I haven't before. Th

Re: [HOT] Guidance for Organizing HOT Mapathon

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Glad to hear you are interested in starting some mapping parties. I don't have any particular advice and am not in the area (am located in Fargo, ND) but happy to hear you are interested. - -AndrewBuck On 10/19/2014 04:59 PM, FTA . wrote: > Hi all

Re: [HOT] Tasking Manager updated

Hi, On 20/10/14 01:06, Erik Walthinsen wrote: > I'm also not thrilled with the move of "Unlock". IMO that's going to > make inadvertent "premature Done"s much more common. I would much > rather see it be a button again, perhaps colored yellow to distinguish > it from the green Done. I agree wi

Re: [HOT] OSM humanitarian layer as an ArcGIS basemap?

Thank you for the information in this thread. I have learned a lot. Here is an pdf article that is related to the discussion topic OSM Data Usage in Esri’s ArcGIS Online Basemaps Articl