[HOT] Mapping introduction/party, tips?

Hi! I'm holding a mapping introduction and subsequent mapping party for company members of Engineers Without Borders. The introduction is to be held in a couple of weeks, while the mapping party in middle of January. Does anyone of you have some tips for holding presentations in regards to wha

Re: [HOT] [talk-ph] Super Typhoon Hagupit (International Name Ruby)

Hi Eugene, A Big Thanks, Thats cool. Regards Mark Cupitt "If we change the world, let it bear the mark of our intelligence" Hire Me on Freelancer See me on Open StreetMap See me on LinkedIn *See me on S

Re: [HOT] [talk-ph] Super Typhoon Hagupit (International Name Ruby)

Hi Eugene, there are some Orange Tiles under the "Red" Ones, are they something different?? Cheers Mark Regards Mark Cupitt "If we change the world, let it bear the mark of our intelligence" Hire Me on Freelancer See me on Open StreetMap See

Re: [HOT] [talk-ph] Super Typhoon Hagupit (International Name Ruby)

Hi Eugene That;s absolutely cool .. A Hidden gem .. at least for me .. Regards Mark Cupitt "If we change the world, let it bear the mark of our intelligence" Hire Me on Freelancer See me on Open StreetMap See me on LinkedIn

Re: [HOT] [talk-ph] Super Typhoon Hagupit (International Name Ruby)

Hi Mark, The orange shapes indicate the latest added imagery. This is so that people can concentrate on these areas for tracing on the assumption that existing imagery have already been traced before. ~Eugene On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 8:09 PM, Mark Cupitt wrote: > Hi Eugene, there are some Orange

Re: [HOT] [talk-ph] Super Typhoon Hagupit (International Name Ruby)

Hi Mark, You can actually toggle the data layers by hovering your mouse pointer over the layer icon on the upper-right corner. The orange shapes are toggled by the "Bing (new since Sep 2013)" layer. ~Eugene On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Mark Cupitt wrote: > Hi Eugene > > That;s absolutely c

Re: [HOT] [talk-ph] Super Typhoon Hagupit (International Name Ruby)

Hi Mark, This link should actually provide the most updated Bing imagery coverage: http://osmph.github.io/Imagery_Coverage_Map/#12.009771,124.381713,8 ~Eugene On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Mark Cupitt wrote: > Hi All, Jean-Guilhem updated the Bing Hi Res Imagery availability. I have > upload

Re: [HOT] [talk-ph] Super Typhoon Hagupit (International Name Ruby)

Hi Mark, This map is manually updated usually soon after someone notices that there is new Bing imagery. Bing never regularly announces that they have added new imagery so if someone notices that there's something new, I or another person will try to update the GeoJSON shapes in the following Gith

Re: [HOT] [talk-ph] Super Typhoon Hagupit (International Name Ruby)

Oh .. Even Cooler .. When we meet, beers are on me .. WOW!! How often is this updated?? Regards Mark Cupitt "If we change the world, let it bear the mark of our intelligence" Hire Me on Freelancer See me on Open StreetMap See me on LinkedIn <

[HOT] Poll for next Governance WG meeting

Hello, Since the Governance Working Group does not have a set schedule, we are providing this poll (Doodle) for suggesting a date and time during the week of December 15. Hope to 'see' you there, follow this link to participate in the poll: http://doodle.com/bvb6r8y8ms49ffbc - I will close the po

[HOT] New Communications Working Group Forum

Welcome to the new Communications Working Group forum. We will be holding our meetings here and please place any relevant documentation here as well. If you have any questions, please contact Kristen at kegerme...@hotosm.org. Please find the folder for this group here: https://drive.google.co

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] The JOSM plug-in you might not know you love yet - GeoChat

Geochat seems like it could be useful...seems like this could be something that should be in JOSM and iD as core functionality. On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Blake Girardot wrote: > I am always late to the party, but I just discovered the GeoChat plugin. > It's brilliant. If you use JOSM, you

[HOT] Typhoon Ruby Agency Response Contacts

We need to collect Contacts for the different Agencies to assist with Pre and Post Disaster Mapping efforts. I have created a Google Spreadsheet (link below) to hold the information. If you have, any contacts for any of the Government, NGO's at the national or local level, please add them so that

[HOT] Typhoon Hagupit / Ruby Activation

Mark already informed you about the pre-disaster mapping for the typhoon Hagupit / Ruby.  Re-evaluating the situation, we have decided to officially announce that HOT activates to support the Philippines government and the international organizations that deploy to help the people of this region

Re: [HOT] Typhoon Ruby Agency Response Contacts

Hi Mark and folks, If you are not in contact with the Digital Humanitarian Network, this would be the time to do so. They have been activated by UN OCHA. Also, for your list, it might also be appropriate to post on the CrisisMappers list, though some of the groups might not want to be listed on a

Re: [HOT] Typhoon Hagupit / Ruby Activation

In response to the activation, Schadow1 Expeditions will start it's daily update of its OSM-based Garmin GPS map generation starting tomorrow December 6, 2014, to catch up with the mapping updates provided by the advocates; and for use of humanitarian missions on the field. This will continue as u

Re: [HOT] [talk-ph] Typhoon Hagupit / Ruby Activation

Thanks ervin. Is it possible for you to create custom icon for features tagged as evacuation_center=yes and evacuation_centre=yes ? We plan to map that too. On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Ervin Malicdem wrote: > In response to the activation, Schadow1 Expeditions will start it's daily > updat

Re: [HOT] [talk-ph] Typhoon Hagupit / Ruby Activation

The evac centers icon will be ready starting tomorrow's map generation. It will temporary overwrite icons for schools or other pois tagged as evacs. Was searching for an international standard icon for evac centers. Do we have one? Ervin Malicdem for Schadow1 Expeditions a Filipino must not be a

Re: [HOT] [talk-ph] Typhoon Hagupit / Ruby Activation

On 5 December 2014 at 08:28, Ervin Malicdem wrote: > Was searching for an international standard icon for evac centers. Do we > have one? The OCHA icon is here: https://github.com/flavour/eden/blob/master/static/img/markers/OCHA/camp_temporary_camp_40px.png From: http://reliefweb.int/report/world

[HOT] TYPHOON RUBY - TASK CREATION NOTICE #798 - URGENT RESPONSE

Dear All Typhoon Ruby is currently expected to make landfall in South East Samar early Sunday Morning. In support of The Philippine Government, Red Cross/Red Crescent, DHN and other Agencies, we have created our first task for this Activation. http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/798 We have requeste