On the wiki page it refers to *JOSM Style 'HOT-OSM-Validation'* does this
refer to the HDM style?
Thanks John
On 28 April 2015 at 06:44, Severin Menard severin.men...@gmail.com wrote:
NIck and I made this wikipage about it:
I would add to this,
This is the ransom of the success we had with the OpenStreetMap responses over
the last few years
- Haiti 2010 1.5 million edits- Haiyan 2013 4.5 million edits- Ebola million
edits 16 milllions up to now?
- Nepal 2015, 1.5 million edits in three days (my last count
Transfering, exchanging data with Kathmandu Living Lab is a problem with the
low band connection they have.
Temporarily, we have to find somebody that can carry a disk pack. But this is
not very efficient for such a response.
Worth's trying:
Anyone that could propose them free a better service
John,
As well as the very good Mapgive site, could I suggest that someone has
a read through http://learnosm.org/en/coordination/remote/ which
includes links to the section about the Tasking Manager. Although there
will always be mistakes, the main point to watch out for, is that only
Thanks John
I think that it is the good approach to have local OSM contributors. They
should be able to follow the newbies and correct various problems like roads
not connecting, tagging problems, etc. The HOT irc and this list are good place
to exchange on this.
regard
Pierre
De :
NIck and I made this wikipage about it:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Tasking_Manager/Validating_data
I should actually update it a bit. In CAR for exemple, everytime a job and
task validation is done (the latter may not be finished, depending on the
motivation of mappers), I unpublish
GIScience group of Heidelberg University
http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/lehrstuehle/gis/mitarbeiter_en.html just
set up an OpenRouteService Disaster Map:
www.openrouteservice.org/disaster-nepal which will be updated every 30
minutes.
The map provides additional layers which show important
The the humanitarians operate in a stressful context with a lot of operations
to do.
To sell these products to them, we need straightforward examples plus an easy
worflow to transfer pictures.
There are various experiments going on. Kathmandu Living Labs talked yesterday
about their mobile
QR codes can also be easily printed out locally and included on leaflets that
are dropped into an area.
I’m confident people will have cell coverage before some roads are cleared.
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Ralph,
I believe that you offered the solution within your message.
Can we make it explicit that New volunteers are to ONLY work on the White
Tiles ?
I believe most volunteers are capable of following this request, and do have
the best intentions with their involvement.
It would be onerous
Hi Maning,
You have no idea how valuable this summary is to our efforts. There is
no way for me to thank you enough for it.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Cheers,
Blake
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 6:28 AM, maning sambale
emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi again, posting a summary of my
Hi, Jaakko:
That's why we have now strict import guidelines ;)
I've checked some random nodes, and they are surely not eligible for
import (those I checked are over a mountain or farmlands), and it
would take a week or more to actually start the import after
discussing with the Nepal local
Yes
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 12:15 PM, john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote:
On the wiki page it refers to *JOSM Style 'HOT-OSM-Validation'* does
this refer to the HDM style?
Thanks John
On 28 April 2015 at 06:44, Severin Menard severin.men...@gmail.com
wrote:
NIck and I made this
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I do agree with you in principle, and actually suggested using the
information on the task manager linke number of tiles a user has
completed to do things like flag new users tiles for extra caution in
validating and such. Whether we want to restrict
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I think this is a good idea, a sort of 'tiered' priveledge system.
New users can only map new tiles, then after completing 5 tiles or so
they can move on to validating, etc. We could also look at data such
as how many changesets the user has in total
Any chance we can get a more human friendly URL?
good idea,
here:-- http://nepal-taginfo.openstreetmap.hu/
( but maybe need a little time to refresh a dns cache )
I have also updated the wiki with the human friendly URL:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2015_Nepal_earthquake
//
Hi - just a bit more info on the validation on roads. I concentrated on
Task 6 and got the following results from OSRM vs the UN document. OSRM are
in (brackets). All distances in km.
Kathmandu - Naubise 25 (30)
Naubise - Palung 37 (43)
Palung - Simbhanjyang 15 (18)
Simbhanjyang - Bhainse 41 (41)
Hi everybody,
At Wikimedia Sverige we quickly started organizing an event at our office in
Stockholm when we heard about the earthquake (we started the work before I read
about the problems that you have experienced). The event will take place on the
29 April.
I have asked the participants to
On point 2, it looks like those are copyrighted, and we'll need to hold off
until (if) those are approved by the Department:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2015_Nepal_earthquake#Other_Data
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 9:55 AM Anders Anker-Rasch and...@anker-rasch.no
wrote:
Hi, lots of info
On 28 April 2015 at 11:46, Brad Neuhauser brad.neuhau...@gmail.com wrote:
on the Nepal Roads page, there is a section on
Highways in Rural Mountainous Areas which seems to imply that highway=path
is usually the correct tagging for these roads. Is this correct?
highway=unclassified seems to be
Dear HOT folks,
We have added a set of tasks to the list of tasks, based on our analysis of
reports of most affected areas from media, UN ocha, red cross, and others.
For the outskirts of Kathmandu, Bhaktapur, Lalitpur tasks,where we have
post quake imagery, please update the
Longtime OSMer, infrequent HOTtie here, I wanted to follow up with a
question on road tagging: on the Nepal Roads page, there is a section on
Highways in Rural Mountainous Areas which seems to imply that
highway=path is usually the correct tagging for these roads. Is this
correct?
Also, in rural
Anders,
people in Kathmandu could meet Nama and Kathmandu living lab colleagues and
offer there help. Nama is on this list.
About import from other maps, we have to be careful about licensing problems.
Again, Nama (Nepal timezone) would be the person to answer these questions.
regard Pierre
Bill can you share more on this:
as we move into damage assessment we're probably going to be a step behind
the TomNod participants;
I don't really understand what TomNod does or why people contribute to a
proprietary platforms like TomNod. Why do think OSM needs a platform like
TomNod and
Please do not take the initiative to create Task Manager jobs. You should
discuss this with the leaders of the activation.
It is important to coordianate the content, either pre - post disaster, the
instructions, the extent of jobs and avoid duplications.
regard
Pierre
Sorry, it glued to the end mark:
https://twitter.com/AFPphoto/status/592992189384384512/photo/1
From: svo...@hotmail.com
To: hot@openstreetmap.org
Subject: AFP: helicopter image from hamlets on the hills in epicentre region
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 13:41:32 -0300
Just to share: AFP -
Just to share: AFP - Earthquake in Nepal devastates rural communities - the
view from an Indian Army helicopter in the hills of Gorkha . That's the kind
of small buildings and communities we see all around on the hills by the rivers
of Gorkha to North, the region of the 7.8 epicentre. All that
I'm concerned that we are marking as complete some tasks where we can't
see anything on the imagery because of cloud cover.
This could lead to settlements being overlooked.
Is there some way of indicating that the task needs further
investigation, perhaps with post-disaster imagery?
OSM Notes
Martin, if no Imagery report the task completed with a comment No imagery for
this task.
We are looking at a system to report all these areas.
regard
Pierre
De : m902 m902@gmail.com
À : hot@openstreetmap.org
Envoyé le : Mardi 28 avril 2015 12h20
Objet : [HOT] Nepal: indicating
So, partly my question is about clarifying the consensus on the Roads page,
but it's also then making sure the correct info is included in the task
instructions.
Just noticed in the Local Roads section of the Nepal Roads page it says
unpaved but motorable roads should be highway=track. That's
On 04/28/2015 09:50 PM, Pierre Béland wrote:
Good that you check this. It might be possible. Can somebody check on a
Garmin GPS?
The IMG file in the zip is zero bytes, not much to check there.
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Apologies for cut and paste, here you go Harushi:
Basic Information for Contributing RIGHT NOW
Working on OpenStreetMap Tasks
General Info on the OSM Humanitarian Mapping effort :
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2015_Nepal_earthquake
If you want to contribute IMMEDIATELY to ongoing
Stacey,
Important that somebody revise these documents before advertisiing.
http://hotosm.github.io/tracing-guides/guide/Nepal.htmlThis Guide should be
revised. For IDP, it instruct
Area feature
Tent = Yes
Instructions, as indicated in job 1010 are
- idp:camp_site=spontaneous_camp
-
Thanks Chad
Pierre
De : Chad Blevins cblev...@usaid.gov
À : Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr
Cc : Stace Maples stacemap...@stanford.edu; Harushi Tetsuka
haru...@prod-ent.com; hot@openstreetmap.org hot@openstreetmap.org
Envoyé le : Mardi 28 avril 2015 18h11
Objet : Re: [HOT] Would
Thanks RalfI will report to Geofabrik about this.
Pierre
De : Ralf Kleineisel ralf-li...@kleineisel.de
À : HOT hot@openstreetmap.org
Envoyé le : Mardi 28 avril 2015 16h18
Objet : Re: [HOT] Garmin Map
On 04/28/2015 09:50 PM, Pierre Béland wrote:
Good that you check this. It
Thanks. Based on the feedback, I tried to clarify the wiki:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nepal/Roads#Highways_in_Rural_.26_Mountainous_Areas
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com
wrote:
My vote for unpaved mountain roads between settlements is to be tagged
Pierre,
I will take care of that now. My plan is to review this with a few folks
today/tomorrow and post a more finalized version tomorrow.
Thanks,
Chad
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr wrote:
Stacey,
Important that somebody revise these documents before
I am a retired professional with above average computer skills. I have
registered with Open Street and HOT. I am ready to help but I am not
clear on how to receive an assignment. In the meantime, I will try and
get acclimated with the map making program. Please advise.
Harushi Tetsuka
Yes, this is EXACTLY what we need more of. For every feature type being
requested for major activations, there should be THIS type of specific
guidance. Thanks Chad. I've added it to my page:
http://stanfordgeospatialcenter.github.io/Map4Nepal_Resources/
In F,LT,
Stace Maples
Geospatial
Hello,
I've detected an undiscussed import of village names in Nepal. Please
delete it before further damage arises due to this import.
It is unclear where this data comes from and if it's copyrighted.
Each node is tagged with fixme and note=these locations and village
names
Thanks for the tips Pierre,
I make sure that we join the IRC channel. We will be working between 17-21 CET.
Regards,
John
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 14:23:21 +
From: pierz...@yahoo.fr
To: johnandersso...@hotmail.com; hot@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [HOT] HOT Digest, Vol 62, Issue 36
On 04/27/2015 12:37 AM, Pierre Béland wrote:
Looking at Geofabrik latest addition [http://labs.geofabrik.de/nepal/
directory of files] updated every 30 minutes, I see that this also offer
files formatted for Garmin devices.
The Garmin zip file from Geofabrik is only 174 Bytes, seems to be
To help on road classification, it also could be of great help if people that
have pictures from rural regions of Nepal could upload it to Mapillary (need
photos with EXIF geotag). I think also it could be useful if people on the
ground with cell phones with OSMAND could have Mapillary
Joining this megathread with some feedback from trainings I'm running:
1. Peole area eager to do things the right way the problem is that once
you've completed the Mapgive style training and selected a specific job to work
on, there is VERY LITTLE TO NO GUIDANCE on what is the right way to
My vote for unpaved mountain roads between settlements is to be tagged
highway=unclassified + surface=unpaved
highway=track should be reserved for roads from settlements into
agricultural land as it says in the wiki
--
Arun Ganesh
(planemad) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad
Hello everyone,
I am forwarding this note that Heather sent to us nearly a year and a half
ago, because it's stuck in my memory since then. I want to amplify her call
to encourage you all to be caring for yourselves and each other.
If you've ever been on an airplane, you know that in case of
Hi,
We could also make slightly evolve the Tasking Manager and create an
experienced mapper privileges status who would be required to have access
to the validate/unvalidate steps and can promote any other mapper to this
status, because she/he knowsher/him and trust her/his skills. The rest of
Dear all ,
Thanks all the OSM contributors for their amazing work yesterday on
camp_site
Following this task http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1008
We were able to share an IDP camp location layers for the response in
the field.
Via the katmandu living lab.
You can find this layer with
Hello, Andreas, I updated the project image. Regarding the additional map
on the project page, this is just the template. I modified it.
Thank you
Heather
Heather Leson
heatherle...@gmail.com
Twitter: HeatherLeson
Blog: textontechs.com
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 7:17 PM, Pierre Béland
Like we started yesterday, we need various ways to validate the data. Not only
via the Task Manager. Yes, global validation are a good way to do it. We
started to do for roads. If you think of other ways to validate, please do.
I also asked previously for monitoring tools to better follow such
I agree - a good methodology is to use the smaller tree diagram to
validate in dividual distances and look at where they differ significantly.
The UN doc itself is inconsistent. If you look at Kathmandu to Hetauda the
tree diagram distances don't add up to the distance in the triangular table
Fantastic resource Imre. Any chance we can get a more human friendly URL? I
suspect a lot of people will have trouble remembering that IP address or
passing it along to others.
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On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 4:08 AM, Imre Samu pella.s...@gmail.com wrote:
I have created a
Chad, we are asking for all IDP camps to be represented as ways / areas. We can
reduce to points via the overpass api at a later date. Even if the areas are
tiny that lets us know that it’s just a single tent, so it’s still useful
information.
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On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 3:25
Hi Folks, Breathtaking contributions! 2182 contributors around the world.
Mapping parties continue.
We need your help. There are so many great stories of HOT that are not
being told. We need some communications surge support. Please do contact us
to help out.
Thanks to Sajjad for this guest
Thanks Patrick.
Best,
- Enock
twitter: @Enock4seth
enockseth.blogspot.com | [[User:Enock4seth]]
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 1:48 AM, Patrick D patrick.d@gmail.com wrote:
Enock,
The imagery service seems to be operating fine. I've seen a few IO disk
errors, which is typical when
Fellow mappers,
Maintaining quality with large number of inexperienced mappers is a
critical issue. However I think that open and inclusiveness is what makes
OSM and HOT great, and we should work on accommodating newbies with better
community support or technical improvement to make tools more
[To list]
-- Forwarded message -
From: Tim McNamara paperl...@timmcnamara.co.nz
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 21:59
Subject: Re: [HOT] AAGH!
To: Chia-liang Kao cl...@clkao.org
As well as training/documentation, we should also make sure that there are
tasks available
Great
From your table, I see many significative differences. Taking shorter segments
would help to validate further I think.
cheers
Pierre
De : kusala nine kusa...@googlemail.com
À : hot hot@openstreetmap.org
Envoyé le : Mardi 28 avril 2015 1h47
Objet : Re: [HOT] Nepal major road
Hi there,
I am Danishka originally from Sri Lanka but working in Singapore.
I will be flying to Nepal on Friday to spend my long weekend to help Nepal
people.
Let me know if I can help you gurs.
Prof. Sameer Verma suggest me to join with your team.
Thanks,
--
Danishka Navin
I have placed a block message on this users's account in the hopes
that she reads it and can reply quickly to the changeset discussions.
If I don't hear back from her soon, I will revert the changesets in
order to minimize the disruption of mapping in Nepal during the
crisis.
Hi there:
Thanks for informing about this.
I contacted the user who made this import, offering help to do this
import in a proper way, following strictly the imports guidelines. I am
completely sure she did the import with good intentions, but it
obviously cannot be done this way.
I guess that,
Hi there,
I am Danishka originally from Sri Lanka but working in Singapore.
I will be flying to Nepal on Friday to spend my long weekend to help Nepal
people.
Let me know if I can help you gurs.
Prof. Sameer Verma suggest me to join with your team.
Thanks,
--
Danishka Navin
Ralf
Good that you check this. It might be possible. Can somebody check on a Garmin
GPS?
About your GPS update
http://www.kleineisel.de/blogs/index.php/osmmap/
I added link in the wiki
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2015_Nepal_earthquake#Exporting_OpenStreetMap_data
Could you revise to
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