Re: [HOT] Gentle grump

John - Wow. That was actually an amazing help. I am not sure how adding a plugin can be made intuitive for someone doing it the first time without this level of detail. I also think part of my problem is going from slippy maps, like what we have been using on the web for years, and the iPhone a

Re: [HOT] HOT Board and Chair Elections

Hi All, sorry, I missed one additional comment, in terms of the Governance. Heather brings up an excellent point on continuity. It is very disruptive for any organization, especially one as globally diverse as HOT is, to change its entire leadership on an annual basis. In reality and in my experi

Re: [HOT] HOT Board and Chair Elections

Hi Heather and all Heather, I absolutely agree with your thoughts on the role women can play. I encourage any women out there who may be considering in getting involved at the Board level, or any other level, to please do so, it would be a pleasure to work with you. You have as much to contribute

Re: [HOT] Mayendit task

Hi Pierre, I totally agree. I will ask for feedback. Also, we are trying to up our game in terms of local field mapping thus year. I guess there is no better validation. Bangladesh was super interesting, for example. Although the tracing was often way out, it was super important for the local ma

Re: [HOT] HOT Board and Chair Elections

On 3/6/2015 2:29 PM, Heather Leson wrote: 3. Gender Are you a women? Please run for the Board. Ask me any questions and I can help. Claire was on the Board with me this past year. It made a difference in dynamic. One thing that we have not broached enough is the what I like to call the "mapper

Re: [HOT] Gentle grump

Right the basic idiot guide. First write down your OSM userid and password. For task 917 we only care about highways, settlements and buildings. Buildings if only because if there is one in isolation sometimes we like to map it rather than call it a landuse=residential. Start JOSM up, in the edi

Re: [HOT] Gentle grump

Hey Ray, Some shortcuts for JOSM are here http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Keyboard_Shortcuts The learning materials for OSM are constantly being developed and improved. MapGive created some nice intro materials http://mapgive.state.gov/learn-to-map/. HOT is still actively working on learn

Re: [HOT] Fw: Aw: Re: #923 - Mayendit, South Sudan - highways to ditches?

Kretzer, There are wetlands in this area and we see a derivation. It could be seasonal floods as you say but. A fixme tag would let ask evaluation from field teams. I suggest to add to such  segments of highways the following tags- flood_prone=yes- fixme=Validate if this segment is flooded some

Re: [HOT] Gentle grump

On Tue, 3 Mar 2015 15:12:21 -0500 john whelan wrote: > Just for the heck of it I ran JOSM validation on a tile I was mapping > before touching it. It turned up duplicate buildings, crossed > buildings, lots of highways separated by a few inches etc. > > Do we need an idiot guide? A sort of thi

[HOT] 10 Years of OSM + HOT?

Hi all, wanted to share this great visualization of ten years of OSM edits: https://www.mapbox.com/ten-years-openstreetmap/ in case people had not seen it on social media. A question for the group - is there an available dataset/API in json, geojson, shapefile, etc that shows the locations of

[HOT] Communications Working Group Meeting today 20:00 UTC

The Communications WG is meeting today, March 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 pres

[HOT] Fw: Aw: Re: #923 - Mayendit, South Sudan - highways to ditches?

sorry, I really meant "north-west" - top-left, that is ...  confused ...   Gesendet: Freitag, 06. März 2015 um 18:41 Uhr Von: Kretzer An: "Vao Matua" Cc: "hot@openstreetmap.org" Betreff: Aw: Re: [HOT] #923 - Mayendit, South Sudan - highways to ditches? Yes, I think the plane is landing on tha

Re: [HOT] #923 - Mayendit, South Sudan - highways to ditches?

Yes, I think the plane is landing on that very road, coming in from the north. I think I recognized this bypass (http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/8.1476/30.0169) in the video at about 1:00. But the road I was changing into a ditch was in the north east, clearly not visible as a major road

Re: [HOT] #923 - Mayendit, South Sudan - highways to ditches?

It appears that the Leer-Mayendit primary road in the north portion of the project is under construction in this imagery? Is it flooded? There appears to be quite a bit of water in the video. Any tag requirements? Regards, Emmor On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 7:12 AM, Kretzer wrote: > Actually, I w

Re: [HOT] Mayendit task

Hi Pete Yes, the contributors are prompt to respond to MSF and other humanitarian organizations operational projects. And be sure that such feedback about these projects is most appreciated by the HOT contributors. Let me make some disgression suggesting more intensive collaboration. We are a

[HOT] Mayendit task

Hi all, I planned to write an email this afternoon to ask for your help with the Mayendit task (http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/923). The MSF team need the data fairly urgently. However, when I just went to look, I saw it was already at 28%! This is amazing So, instead I will just say, keep u

Re: [HOT] #923 - Mayendit, South Sudan - highways to ditches?

Actually, I was considering mapping all the fences as well, because the patterns are really beautiful ...   Right now I took a brave (or stupid?) decision to change some long stretches from highway to "waterway=ditch". One was even tagged as "motorway_link" . With the imagery it is often quite

Re: [HOT] HOT Board and Chair Elections

Hi Heather, all, Thanks for your email and the entry on your diary page [0]. There's a lot of great stuff here and I want to raise a specific issue that's been on my mind for a while now: The list of Board candidates is not as diverse as the list of Voting Members. Heather, you've mentioned that

Re: [HOT] Contacting mappers with spaces in their names

Thanks John On 6 March 2015 at 08:29, Blake Girardot wrote: > Hi John, > > You can just type it in directly with square brackets around the name: > > @[First Last] for example > > That should do it, it just will not auto complete. > > cheers, > Blake > > > On 3/6/2015 2:21 PM, john whelan wrote:

Re: [HOT] HOT Board and Chair Elections

Blake and colleagues, thank you most kindly for this nomination. I'm delighted to see more candidates put their names forward. I nominated Mark. While a new member, I appreciate his positive, professional focus. Plus, he is keen to help us grow in Asia. As new faces put their names forward, I wan

Re: [HOT] Contacting mappers with spaces in their names

Hi John, You can just type it in directly with square brackets around the name: @[First Last] for example That should do it, it just will not auto complete. cheers, Blake On 3/6/2015 2:21 PM, john whelan wrote: How do you do it? "GEES +NN" so looks like a student group of students but makin

[HOT] Contacting mappers with spaces in their names

How do you do it? "GEES +NN" so looks like a student group of students but making fairly basic mistakes I'd like to catch early. Thanks John ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

Re: [HOT] Stepping down from the HOT Board

Harry, Thank you for all your years of service to HOT. It has been a pleasure to collaborate with you. Your balanced realism and ability to bridge all the conversations. Add to this your constant diligence to proudly speak on HOT's behalf and lead with the Missing Maps Project. Your shoes, much li

Re: [HOT] #923 - Mayendit, South Sudan - buildings and roads

Hello, On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 12:42 AM, Tom Taylor wrote: > The larger round huts are dwellings, the smaller ones are storage. The > linear items around the buildings and huts are walls (barrier=wall). In South Sudan, actually it is generally fences and not walls. Check on these pics

Re: [HOT] #923 - Mayendit, South Sudan - buildings and roads

Yes, I can see that. But would also map thin worm-shaped residential areas in such a case? Am 06.03.15 um 07:49 schrieb Pete Masters > Also, on the buildings. This is important as it gives the MSF > > epidemiologists a building count which then can be used for various > > analyses before th