Re: [HOT] why is the imagery I see going gray?

2014-11-19 Thread Daniel Joseph
Hi Ray, When editing and zooming in that area, the Bing imagery at the higher zoom level is switching to a different acquisition date/time and the imagery for higher zoom levels has cloud cover (the gray obscuring the screen). If you pan NE to around 12.34869/-9.10189 you'll start to get out of

Re: [HOT] West Africa Ebola Outbreak More Jobs for Mali

2014-11-19 Thread Fran Boon
On 19 November 2014 02:11, Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr wrote: Interesting interaction to build with the humanitairans in the field and we should surely look at the best options together. And all of this in an emergency context. We have not discussed these details with OCHA-Mali and

Re: [HOT] why is the imagery I see going gray?

2014-11-19 Thread althio forum
It is rather unfornatunate but Daniel is right: starting with zoom 18 a new Bing imagery is loaded. It is supposedly better all around I guess... but obviously useless in this area with the cloud cover. What you are seeing when your double-click (when you zoom in from level 17 to 18) is a glimpse

Re: [HOT] West Africa Ebola Outbreak More Jobs for Mali

2014-11-19 Thread Pierre Béland
Hi Fran Interesting, Severin will surely be interested to develop a similar workflow for CAR with the humanitarian organizations. Pierre De : Fran Boon francisb...@gmail.com À : Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr; Jaakko Helleranta.com

[HOT] The JOSM plug-in you might not know you love yet - GeoChat

2014-11-19 Thread Blake Girardot
I am always late to the party, but I just discovered the GeoChat plugin. It's brilliant. If you use JOSM, you want the GeoChat plug in. Then you want to ask in the irc channel or on the Mumble server for someone to come and look at something you are mapping. Then just watch as people show up* to

Re: [HOT] why is the imagery I see going gray?

2014-11-19 Thread Pierre Béland
The link below shows an area where the lower zoom image is the more recent, with new buildings. This is something to notice and play with surely to complete the map. https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/12.77672/-7.69694 Pierre De : althio forum

Re: [HOT] West Africa Ebola Outbreak More Jobs for Mali

2014-11-19 Thread Jaakko Helleranta.com
Hi Fran, Regarding uploads and also photo management more generally with Mapillary: 1) photo management : I have taken a backup of pretty much all Mapillary photos I've taken using an external hard drive (and backing those up to another external hard drive that I eventually copy to my file

Re: [HOT] Is This a Bamako Market?

2014-11-19 Thread Pierre Béland
Looking at the various Markeplaces reported for Bamako in OSM (search=marketplace, bamako), I spotted a few good examples. http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/12.64407/-7.99624 http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/12.67250/-7.95267 https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/12.597723/-8.025731

Re: [HOT] Is This a Bamako Market?

2014-11-19 Thread Kevin Bullock
Almost certain that indeed, this is a parking lot with cars. Or more specifically, perhaps a lot that is storing cars/vehicles. Kevin From: Pierre Béland [mailto:pierz...@yahoo.fr] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 8:38 AM To: hot Subject: Re: [HOT] Is This a Bamako Market? Looking at the

Re: [HOT] Is This a Bamako Market?

2014-11-19 Thread thatwoodb
Thanks to all who replied, with special thanks to Pierre for the examples. Now that I see they're cars, I wonder how I ever thought otherwise! -Ian Sent using Hushmail On 11/19/2014 at 7:38 AM, Pierre Béland wrote: Looking at the various Markeplaces reported for Bamako in OSM

[HOT] Dev Consultant Job: part time developer/advisor for OSM environmental project

2014-11-19 Thread James Conkling
Hi HOT, I'm reaching out to ask if anyone is interested in helping out on a project to microtask the mapping of all logging roads in the Congo Basin. I realize this is not traditional disaster response; however, there's a good amount of overlap with tech needs (microtasked editing tools and