Re: [HOT] Work begins on Mapping Africa's Protected Areas

2015-01-14 Thread Dan S
Hi Bouke, Yes please :) - even if you've already digitised a GPS trace, it's useful for us to have GPS traces in the database to help with alignment etc. Dan 2015-01-14 20:25 GMT+00:00 Bouke Pieter Ottow boukepie...@gmail.com: Hi John, Blake and list, I have somewhere on my computer still

Re: [HOT] Work begins on Mapping Africa's Protected Areas

2015-01-14 Thread Phil (The Geek) Wyatt
I am happy to pass the message on through the International Rangers Federation and the Thin Green Line movement https://www.facebook.com/thethingreenlinefoundation https://www.facebook.com/InternationalRangerFederation Cheers - Phil From: John White [mailto:jwpwh...@gmail.com]

Re: [HOT] Starting on JOSM

2015-01-14 Thread Andrew Patterson
Max That's really helpful, thank you very much. The Beginner's guide was not joking when it said that this was a steep learning curve!! Best Wishes Andrew On 14 January 2015 at 20:12, Max Bainrot mbain...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Andrew, On 14 Jan 2015 6:28 am, Andrew Patterson

Re: [HOT] Work begins on Mapping Africa's Protected Areas

2015-01-14 Thread Phil (The Geek) Wyatt
Also passed on through the PAMS and cybertracker networks http://pamsfoundation.org/ https://www.facebook.com/pages/CyberTracker/124220177605061?fref=ts They are bound to have some gps traces Cheers - Phil From: John White [mailto:jwpwh...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, 15 January

Re: [HOT] Starting on JOSM

2015-01-14 Thread Max Bainrot
Hi Andrew, On 14 Jan 2015 6:28 am, Andrew Patterson andrew...@gmail.com wrote: I am just starting to do some plotting on task #591 - South Sudan Crisis, Cholera outbreak in Juba, mapping with WorldView-2 - task 38 and would welcome some checking and the answer to a couple of questions before I

Re: [HOT] Work begins on Mapping Africa's Protected Areas

2015-01-14 Thread Bouke Pieter Ottow
Hi John, Blake and list, I have somewhere on my computer still some traces of my visit to Masai Mara (Kenya) and Nyungwe Forest (Rwanda). Would this be interesting to use? Although I already digitized the last one mentioned. Regards, Bouke Pieter On Wed Jan 14 2015 at 6:50:25 PM Blake Girardot

Re: [HOT] Work begins on Mapping Africa's Protected Areas

2015-01-14 Thread Jan van Bekkum
We are making an overland trip from the Netherlands to South Africa. All tracks (including all parks we visited) have been uploaded. I am in the process of adding the data we collected to the maps. Parks include: - Masai Mara (Kenya) - Hell's Gate (Kenya) - Queen Elisabeth N.P. (Uganda)

[HOT] HOT Board Meeting - January 20, 2015

2015-01-14 Thread Heather Leson
Hi the next HOT Board meeting is January 20th, 2015 Draft minutes https://docs.google.com/a/hotosm.org/document/d/1mxUnfILi5wEY_f4KtKT5OzN0dNWjjegog5ekbuNpakM/edit Previous minutes http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Meetings heather Heather Leson heatherle...@gmail.com

Re: [HOT] Starting on JOSM

2015-01-14 Thread althio althio
Hi Andrew, welcome to HOT and our mailing list! Worldview-2 ... name given is Digital Global - is this one and the same. Yes. The imagery [...] is from Digital Globe’s WorldView-2 satellite taken on February 20, 2014. This gets confusing when sometimes we refer to the provider and sometimes to

[HOT] Where do I find Worldview-2?

2015-01-14 Thread Jan van Bekkum
Hello, ​ For the mapping projects reference is made to Worldview-2. How do I get access to the Worldview Imagery for mapping?​ Met vriendelijke groet/with kind regards, *Jan van Bekkum* www.DeEinderVoorbij.nl ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org

Re: [HOT] Work begins on Mapping Africa's Protected Areas

2015-01-14 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi John, Congrats on kicking off the Projects! Do you or anyone on the list have any idea how we can get in contact with adventure tourism or eco tourism people (consumers or vendors)? Companies that offer eco or adventure tourism rely on these areas staying protected so they have an

[HOT] Work begins on Mapping Africa's Protected Areas

2015-01-14 Thread John White
Hi All I am please to announce that work has begun on Mapping Africa's Protected Areas. The first two National Parks selected for mapping are Serengeti National Park (Task 834 http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/834) and Niokolo-Koba National Park (Task 721 http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/721). As