[HOT] Advice needed: field mapping in Central African Republic

2015-04-12 Thread Pete Masters
Hello all, I am currently doing field mapping with MSF in Bangassou, Central African Republic for the Missing Maps. I have a few issues I could do with some help with... Firstly, landmarks... Some important landmarks in Bangassou are the catholic missions (of which there are at least two), praye

Re: [HOT] Advice needed: field mapping in Central African Republic

2015-04-12 Thread malenki
Though never having mapped these kind of things so far I try to give my best guesses: Pete Masters schrieb am Sun, 12 Apr 2015 12:41:41 +0100: > Some important landmarks in Bangassou are the catholic missions (of > which there are at least two), I'd think I'd use office=religion operator= name=

[HOT] SPAM? MALWARE? Fwd: Survey Goethe-University Frankfurt a. M. Department of Human Geography

2015-04-12 Thread Charlotte Wolter
Dear folks, I just received this. Because there was no advance notice of any kind, I'm inclined to think that it is malware. I certainly do not intend to open the link to their "survey." Does anyone know if this is legit? Charlotte Delivered-To: techl...@tec

Re: [HOT] SPAM? MALWARE? Fwd: Survey Goethe-University Frankfurt a. M. Department of Human Geography

2015-04-12 Thread Dan S
Hi, It really really does NOT look like spam or malware. I get emails like this occasionally. I don't mind helping if I have time. I don't understand what aspect of that email has made you worried - there was no advance notice, as you say, but what advance notice would you normally expect? They s

Re: [HOT] SPAM? MALWARE? Fwd: Survey Goethe-University Frankfurt a. M. Department of Human Geography

2015-04-12 Thread john whelan
I opened the link and did the survey. Looks legitimate, I have various bits of software that check for things. It would probably be more secure if it didn't ask for javascript to be enabled and I'd be happier with a https connection. Cheerio John On 12 April 2015 at 14:27, Charlotte Wolter wro

Re: [HOT] Advice needed: field mapping in Central African Republic

2015-04-12 Thread Michael Heißmeier
Hello Pete, Some important landmarks in Bangassou are the catholic missions (of which there are at least two), prayer houses (of which there are many) and chief's houses (one for every quartier / village etc). Prayer houses are not churches and cannot be tagged as such as they fulfill very diffe

Re: [HOT] SPAM? MALWARE? Fwd: Survey Goethe-University Frankfurt a. M. Department of Human Geography

2015-04-12 Thread Charlotte Wolter
John, I'm sure the universsity of legit. I'm just not sure about these guys. I'd feel better if they had a university URL. In fact, I think that's basic, if the survey is what they claim. Charlotte At 11:58 AM 4/12/2015, you wrote: I opened the link and did the survey. Looks l

Re: [HOT] SPAM? MALWARE? Fwd: Survey Goethe-University Frankfurt a. M. Department of Human Geography

2015-04-12 Thread john whelan
Perhaps we should set that as a protocol for a survey requirement, an HTTPS address that is recognisable as a university url? One of the problems with surveys is selection criteria of the sample and having picked your sample the response rate. Working for a few years at Statistics Canada you get

[HOT] #MapLesotho Mapathon in Mohale's Hoek 15th April 2015

2015-04-12 Thread Ciarán Staunton
Hi Everyone, I realise people are still busy with Ebola mapping and that this is a top priority. The openstreetmap Lesotho community are having a regional mapathon (the first outside of the capital city) in a town called Mohale's Hoek in Southwest Lesotho. This will take place on Wednesday between

Re: [HOT] Advice needed: field mapping in Central African Republic

2015-04-12 Thread Severin Menard
Hi Pete, I agree with both Thomas and Michael's usggestions regarding amenity=place_of_worship and amenity=townhall On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 8:32 PM, Michael Heißmeier < michae...@digital-filestore.de> wrote: > Hello Pete, > > Some important landmarks in Bangassou are the catholic missions (of