Re: [HOT] Kindia Area - How to define an area with both habitat and proximity farming landuse ?

2015-02-19 Thread FOFANA BAZO BAGNOUMANA
I also think that it would be important to define these activities, to find tags to describe them. I confirm that we often see these proximity farming activities around houses and it is hard to trace farming independently of housing. 2015-02-19 18:37 GMT+00:00 Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr:

Re: [HOT] Canaan Haiti Mapping

2015-02-19 Thread Dale Kunce
Thanks for updating the links Emir and Blake. I'm still not used to the link structure of the new Task Manager. The sky was very very blue during our time mapping. In the next few weeks additional roads and paths will be completed and uploaded for Mapillary. We plan to revisit, using mapillary, a

[HOT] leisure=common (Helipad)

2015-02-19 Thread john whelan
Project 892 task 23 is an example. The following question got sent to me probably because I've been validating merrily away. What is the minimum diameter for a Helipad (leisure=common)? Based on my own experience of visiting a remote Scottish Island the local football pitch, being smooth, level

Re: [HOT] leisure=common (Helipad)

2015-02-19 Thread Pierre Béland
Hi John, Our role is to grab information, facilitate the logistic of the humanitarian organizations. But we are not specialists. Once we have identified the common leisures, the GIS specialists from the international organizations can easily extract this info and examine further.  Pierre

Re: [HOT] leisure=common (Helipad)

2015-02-19 Thread Mark Cupitt
Hi John, It is actually a quite difficult thing to specify because the performance of helicopters varies dramatically. To explain .. Temperature and altitude play a very large role, basically the higer you are, the thinner the air, the less bite on the rotors. There is a measure called density

Re: [HOT] leisure=common (Helipad)

2015-02-19 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As Pierre has noted we map what is on the ground, not what how we think it should be mapped. If there is a common area then we tag it as such, if there is not then we should not 'invent' one that is close by simply for the purpose of having one. It

Re: [HOT] leisure=common (Helipad)

2015-02-19 Thread john whelan
So the advice back to the mapper? My opinion would be if its readily identifiable as landuse=common then map it, but refrain from arbitrarily adding a circle tagged landuse=common close to each small village perhaps? Personally when I'm mapping if something like this stands out then it gets

Re: [HOT] What is a hot activation?

2015-02-19 Thread Mikel Maron
Hi There was some work a while back to put more definition around the stages of Activation, and differentiate from HOT related activities or projects.  http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/HOT_activation. There's lots done in the HOT community which doesn't go through the activation process,

Re: [HOT] What is a hot activation?

2015-02-19 Thread Dale Kunce
Accidentally only replied to Fred. Resending with everyone copied in. As someone that uses HOT resources a variety of ways for American Red Cross and Missing Maps I have a few opinions on your questions. First I really love the work done by you and others in Gaza as it really showed the growth of

[HOT] Welcome New Members!

2015-02-19 Thread Russell Deffner
Greetings, The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team is pleased to announce the election of twenty-five (25) new voting members to our organization. They are an amazing group of coders, mappers, teachers, community organizers, project and activation coordinators, liaisons to mission partners, leaders

Re: [HOT] What is a hot activation?

2015-02-19 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Fred, My responses are in line below. On 2/18/2015 10:25 AM, Frederic Moine wrote: What is ahot activation? I saw this slide presentation 16 17 on Gaza. I have activate this task this summer during my holiday as an OSM contributor. I posted the announcement on OSM lists include HOT. I was

Re: [HOT] leisure=common (Helipad)

2015-02-19 Thread Pierre Béland
Yes, we simply map what we can identify as leisure=common. And has Mark said, it will help if we trace the buildings close to the field.  Such data will be analyzed later by specialists. Our role is to provide them options that they will examine.  Pierre De : john whelan