[HOT] HOT Tech WG Meeting 02.2015

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi everyone, the next Tech WG meeting is scheduled on #hot IRC at 17:00 UTC, next Monday (09.02.2015.) [0] If you want to report/discuss something please update the document, the order is not important: https://hackpad.com/TWG-Meeting-02.2015-Tenta

[HOT] Communications Working Group Meeting Tomorrow, Friday, Feb 6th

The Communications WG is meeting Friday, Feb 6th, at 20:00 UTC via Skype --- Just like all our working groups, it is open to everyone. The main focus is communication to audiences outside the immediate HOT and OSM communities. If you have an interest in press

[HOT] HOT New Member Election

Greetings everyone, It has been a pleasure working with the HOT Membership to organize this round of New Voting Member Elections. It has been especially wonderful getting to know a bit more about the 33 amazing nominees and all they are doing for HOT and OpenStreetMap in general. The Ballot is

[HOT] HOT Summit, What's Next

Hi everyone We met earlier to start organizing the HOT Summit. Thanks everyone who joined in person and on the phone. Notes from the call are here:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wKJHE7frtrDDHmpOO67KKmkSaE8Lb4vIgTULAi0gHpM/edit#  Top priorities are to get Scholarships process in motion; issue

Re: [HOT] Volunteering

Hello, Thank you all for your warm welcome and advice! I look forward to contributing to the project. Thanks again, Saul Karamesines ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

[HOT] imagery offset in task #878?

Hi All, The difference between Bing and the supplied NextView imagery for task #878 Missing Maps: Akobo, South Sudan is about 15 m in one of the task tiles. Doesn't seem like there is a whole lot of pre-existing data. My past observations are that we usually align to Bing. What should be done in th

Re: [HOT] Questions regarding Missing Maps Mapping Party in the Netherlands

On 2/3/2015 11:59 PM, Willy Bakker wrote: Firstly, which editor would you recommend for beginners? In Berlin during the Open Knowledge Festival I attended a HOT workshop where the iD editor was used; at the mapping party in Antwerp in december they used JOSM. Which one is the best for beginne

Re: [HOT] HOT New Member Election

Thanks Russell, Michael and others for managing the election. Fellow members: It would be great if you could review the new potential members and vote. Your participation will help HOT grow and help us evolve some of the Working Group activity. Thanks again, Heather Heather Leson heatherle...@

Re: [HOT] imagery offset in task #878?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For the stuff I did I aligned it to Bing. There is already roads traced in aligned to that as well as the river. Generally Bing is very well aligned and the newer stuff agrees with GPS everywhere I have seen so I trust that unless we don't have anyth

Re: [HOT] Questions regarding Missing Maps Mapping Party in the Netherlands

You can make a case for both, but if bandwidth or Internet connection is an issue then I understand iD is more sensitive to this so JOSM might be more appropriate and if you have more experienced mappers present to assist they will almost certainly be more familiar with JOSM. Raspberry Pi ain't th

Re: [HOT] Volunteering

Dear Saul, Welcome to OSM projects in Bangladesh. I believe you will like adding data and love to contribute to OSM. Hope you already have got enough idea and knowledge about OSM from bunch of helping replies to your mail. Happy Mapping. Thanks in advance for your remote contribution to OSM projec