landslide inventory locations in Nepal.
If I understand you correctly:
You can collect info about landslide text from the OpenStreetMap database
http://nepal-taginfo.openstreetmap.hu/search?q=landslide#keys
http://nepal-taginfo.openstreetmap.hu/search?q=landslide#values
And query via
I am quite new too (having done only 1 quarter tile before for South Sudan
Ebola crisis and a little bit of mapping in my local area) and I can relate
to your frustration, what further compounds things is the countries
cultures, building style, etc can and often are different to that of where
you
I don't really understand what TomNod does
It's a giant slippy map loading newer imagery and asking for simple
tagging. As you scroll it marks tiles as reviewed.
High overlap with the purpose of the tasking manager in building tracing
then updating those with appropriate damage tags; ditto road
Hello Danishka, you can contact the Kathmandu living labs:
http://kathmandulivinglabs.org/ (address and comm info at top of page)
2015-04-29 5:12 GMT+02:00 Danishka Navin danis...@gmail.com:
Is it possible to contact local contributors?
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 7:10 AM, Om G
@Serge: Thanks for the quick reaction in those hectic times.
@Rafael: Thanks for your offer. It would be great if you could give her some
guidance :)
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Datum: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 21:34:15 +0200
Von:
Hi, I'm completely new to this and currently trying to help mapping in the
Nepal earthquake areas, via mapgive. Using the iD-Editor, the quality of the
satellite images is very low and i can't really make out the features. Please
help!
Dilys
Hi all,
I am sorry if I am sending the message in the wrong thread! Can some one
help me with landslide inventory locations in Nepal.
Thanks!
Dr.Rubini Santha
Geomatics Engineering
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Hi Milo,
I already sent a mail. :)
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Milo van der Linden m...@dogodigi.net
wrote:
Hello Danishka, you can contact the Kathmandu living labs:
http://kathmandulivinglabs.org/ (address and comm info at top of page)
2015-04-29 5:12 GMT+02:00 Danishka Navin
Try taking a look at areas already completed. You'll then start to get an
idea of what a small house looks like in a low res image. If it is too
difficult find an easier task.
On 29 Apr 2015 10:26, Dilys Ong ikandi...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi, I'm completely new to this and currently trying to help
Jonathan,
Thank you for the feedback which is exactly what we need.
Have you looked at http://learnosm.org/en/coordination/remote/ could you
give some feedback on it - I am one of the people who try to make it
useful. Feedback can be given by clicking on the pencil symbol on the
site, sending
I am one of the newcomers. I am not a GIS scientist learnt on the job
and am relatively lightweight, however I know that I am perfectly
capable of making a contribution but the (HOT)OSM process is not clear:
As is mentioned in several previous posts*, there is a lack of guidance
and aims.
Hi,
Also a newbie but with many years experience in digital maps so trying to
learn on the fly but agree with Jon on disparate nature of info and am
happy to help with that. For now there is one thing I can't find and maybe
someone can help me - some info on using plotlatch with the task manager,
Hi Felix,
The Summit will be filmed, but it will not be live streamed. We will
announce when videos are available for viewing.
Best,
Kristen
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Felix Delattre m...@delattre.de wrote:
Hello HOTties and dear summit organizers,
Indeed it is a very promising and
Hey Sarah,
It is definitely worth checking out the blog updates from Kathmandu Living
Labs:
http://kathmandulivinglabs.org/blog/nepal-earthquake-report-from-openstreetmaps-situation-room-day-4-april-29/
The link above is for day 4 (most recent). Please take a look at days 1-3
for a complete
Marvelous! Thank you for everybody involved in making this possible.
On 04/29/2015 09:36 AM, Kristen Egermeier wrote:
Hi Felix,
The Summit will be filmed, but it will not be live streamed. We will
announce when videos are available for viewing.
Best,
Kristen
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 11:31
Hey Sarah,
Not sure if you have seen these already, but here are some links you can
check out:
http://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2015_Nepal_earthquake#Exporting_OpenStreetMap_data
Here is the most recent update from Maning Sambale, one of the Activation
Hi Felix,
We intend to video record all the sessions for review later. I can't
promise how professional those recordings will be, but we do want to
capture them)
Cheers,
Blake
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Felix Delattre m...@delattre.de wrote:
Hello HOTties and dear summit organizers,
Pierre – those are incredible stats, would love to see an update when
convenient. I’ve been following http://osm.townsendjennings.com/nepal/ but your
information seems to differ.
From: Pierre Béland [mailto:pierz...@yahoo.fr]
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 7:57 AM
To: Andrew Buck;
Hi all,
I noticed in #1009 that some contributors validate tiles they marked as
'done' themselves.
Please be reminded that you should not validate your own work!
Some info about validation in [1].
Best wishes,
Martin
[1]
Kevin
I have a script that collects all the changesets for a BBOX. Below are the
coordinates of the BBOX with partly Tibet and India.min_lon=80.6828,
min_lat=26.7027, max_lon=87.4739, max_lat=29.8856
regard
Pierre
De : Kevin Bullock kbull...@digitalglobe.com
À : 'Pierre Béland'
Hi all,
I'm compiling as many Nepal-related OSM events as I can find for a blog
post for HOT, can you please reply with any you have heard of with links,
and ideally some basic info (who held it, how many people, etc.) and photos?
Thanks! The more info you can send, the better the post will be
Works great! I'll update the Tasking Manager wiki page if you don't beat me
to it. Thanks!
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Nick Allen nick.allen...@gmail.com
wrote:
Sam,
1. Tasking Manager - obtain your square,
2. Tasking Manager - select 'edit with JOSM' and under the words 'edit
with
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Hello HOTties and dear summit organizers,
Indeed it is a very promising and interesting schedule! Congratulations!
Even though the most important part of attending the HOT summit is
probably the personal contacts, informal brainstorms and groups
gathering to work on concrete stuff, but for us,
I just found that too, but I don't see the link to .osm file it mentions.
Is that from an older version of the Tasking Manager, or is it still
available somehow?
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Tasking_Manager#Adding_the_grid_square_to_Potlatch
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Nick Allen
ah awesome i'll try that within the next hour and let you know!!
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On 29 April 2015 at 18:42, Nick Allen nick.allen...@gmail.com wrote:
Sam,
1. Tasking Manager - obtain your square,
2. Tasking Manager - select 'edit with JOSM' and under the words 'edit
with josm' you will see a line of
Sam,
1. Tasking Manager - obtain your square,
2. Tasking Manager - select 'edit with JOSM' and under the words 'edit
with josm' you will see a line of text 'Tip:Download the following gpx
file ...'
3. click on download file make a note where you put it.
4. Tasking Manager - using the
://twitter.com/danishkanavin
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danishkanavin/
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My bad - Robert pointed out that I pasted the wrong source data link in
there (it was for TomNod Haiyan). Here's the Nepal data:
https://t.co/zzSX2qrelM
-Bill
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 11:56 PM William Morris wboyk...@geosprocket.com
wrote:
Kevin Bullock of DigitalGlobe has graciously shared
If you are using the JOSM editor, I can highly recommend this plug-in:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/BuildingsTools
It allows you to trace simple rectangular buildings much faster.
On 29 April 2015 at 12:35, Max Bainrot mbain...@gmail.com wrote:
I am quite new too (having
Sam,
I don't know how current it is but there is a section here
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Tasking_Manager
About potlatch and the tasking manager. If you feedback to me or the list
about its usefulness I'll try to get it updated.
Nick
Volunteer 'Tallguy' for
i switched to iD editor which shows the tile outlined so that's good for
now. but will check your info and feedback once i'm done with this tile.
thanks :)
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On 29 April 2015 at 18:09, Nick Allen nick.allen...@gmail.com wrote:
Sam,
I don't know how current it is but there is a section here
Dear all,
What are people's thoughts on a set of introductory youtube videos?
Target could be new joins, content; setting up, what to start editing (e.g.
white tiles), basics of image interpretation.
Probably a series of must be basic, jargon free and brief. Starting with
introduction to
Sorry after 5 non stop days dont have time to digest everything.
We surely have to coordinate with others and not repeat what they have done.
This imagery would be useful for OSM response to have general evaluations of
villages + roads. We can also provide access to TMS images to hums and Nepal
I'm a fast learner and find the slow pace of the beginner's guide frustratingly
slow. How about a quick start guide at a pace those of us with skills in
drawing and seeing could learn from. I had no problem picking up the ID tool
set intuitively, but missed key processes because the directions
I'm working with Gham Power's team in San Francisco
(http://ghampower.com/). Gham does solar. They are getting requests
via a Google doc for electricity for charging phones and solar
lanterns. http://nepalquake.ghampower.com/
Is anyone else tagging these requests? Any pointers on how to add this
It's a work in progress so far. I will finish it off tonight as I know
there are still some good resources not on there.
Please feel free to have a look, add links or suggest changes. I'll post it
again later before publishing...
Hi, all,
I was validating a square in Nepal and saw that someone had
put in points rather than areas for buildings. Worse, they were
tagged residential buildings.
As with Liberia, the preferred way to do buildings is as
areas. It's maddening sometimes to draw those little
Brad,
Thanks for doing that - it looks great.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Tasking_Manager#Adding_the_grid_square_to_Potlatch
Nick
On 29/04/15 17:52, Brad Neuhauser wrote:
Works great! I'll update the Tasking Manager wiki page if you don't
beat me to it. Thanks!
On Wed, Apr 29,
When working on tasks #1008 http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1008 or #1010
http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1010 please reference the IDP collection
guidance http://hotosm.github.io/tracing-guides/guide/Nepal.html#IDP
Collection Guidance. This guidance was created to help achieve accurate
and
Chad and Team,
Thanks for the help. Pete is going to work on a blog post about training
soon.
While we are short on documentation for new mappers and have some gaps to
keep working on, everyone has really made great strides to support each
other. Each of you is doing great things. Thank you
The last couple of days I've had my share of struggles getting going with
HOT OSM platform, so I decided to share them with a couple of folks I work
with... more struggling ensued. Eventually I got to where (I hope) my
contribution is outweighing the fact that I locked up a square for a
certain
would it be an idea to add them to quakemap.org by adding a subcategory
under Help wanted?
Their map contains termporary data and has the ability to sign off once a
need is fullfilled (thanks to the wonderful ushahidi platform)
Workflow could be like:
1. Add requests to quakemap.org
2.
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 1:31 AM, Suzan su...@suzanreed.com wrote:
I'm a fast learner and find the slow pace of the beginner's guide
frustratingly slow. How about a quick start guide at a pace those of us
with skills in drawing and seeing could learn from. I had no problem
picking up the ID
Pierre, Bill, I can confirm the imagery source is the same. Meaning, the
imagery we licensed openly was used both by HOT (via Mapbox) and on the Tomnod
platform. I am actually putting a blog post together on this topic, and this
thread has been *very insightful*. Barrier of entry is indeed one
Which line tool are you refering to? Within which editor?
Buildings are normally drawn using lines. So, I'm not sure what you mean
exactly.
Also, some tasks only require residential areas to be outlined without the
need to trace all buildings.
On 29 April 2015 at 21:55, Suzan Reed
Tip:
Use the JOSM editor if possible, and within JOSM's preferences, enable the
buildings_tool plug-in.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/BuildingsTools
This makes it much easier and faster to trace and tag buildings!
On 29 April 2015 at 21:01, Charlotte Wolter
Using iD OpenStreatMap editor. Three tools at the top: Point, Line, Area. Some
people have used the Line tool to designate a house, and it shows up as a
little square road.
HTH
On Apr 29, 2015, at 2:33 PM, Dan Marsh wrote:
Which line tool are you refering to? Within which editor?
Buildings
Thanks Arun
Excellent guide.
I suggest to faciliate reading from Selecting a HOT Mapping Task item 5.
to have when appropriate two colums to facilitate reading.
1. ID2. JOSM
For a specific function, you describe in each column what is specific to an
editor.
Pierre
De : Arun Ganesh
Hi Pierre,
I think we're already using the same imagery; it's entirely from
DigitalGlobe, and the Mapbox crew processed that and made it available to
us within hours of it being released (Camilla or Charlie - correct me if
I'm wrong). The issue is that participants (~5,000 people this time) in
hi - I'm still ploughing through the UN road distance map. It's good
because it's shown up some misclassifications but mostly placename
differences and incorrect locations. I've covered most of the high priority
area and the good news is that the distances largely agree with the OSRM
distances
Can you link to the area or a couple of the buildings (or other objects)?
To link to the area, just copy the URL from your browser.
To get a link to the object in iD, you can select one of the buildings,
then copy the link from the View on OpenStreetMap link that's in the
lower left.
On Wed,
I'm working on the hill areas in Nepal.
On Apr 29, 2015, at 2:49 PM, Brad Neuhauser wrote:
Can you link to the area or a couple of the buildings (or other objects)?
To link to the area, just copy the URL from your browser.
To get a link to the object in iD, you can select one of the
Hi,
If you're talking about the actual requests, then that data is not
suitable for putting into OpenStreetMap. Also, the geolocation data is
derived from Google so we are very wary of including it because of
licensing issues. So your best choice is to use a service that lets
you overlay geodata
People have used the line tool to indicate the outline of a building, the
Residential Area designation without identifying houses, and so forth.
How can we help people use the right tool?
I am doing loads of corrections.
MingyurPema
S Reed
USA
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Comments for a task or a tile within a task?
You can't make comments on the task, only for each tile.
On 29 April 2015 at 23:16, Suzan Reed su...@suzanreed.com wrote:
Here's a question that's probably answered somewhere.
When I am done with a Task, where do I put notes for the entire Task?
Thanks for the confirmation, Kevin. Can you point us toward any information
about theTomnod validation process, and the pipeline for the data once it's
validated?
-B
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 5:24 PM Kevin Bullock kbull...@digitalglobe.com
wrote:
Pierre, Bill, I can confirm the imagery source is
Answered my own question.
On Apr 29, 2015, at 3:16 PM, Suzan Reed wrote:
Here's a question that's probably answered somewhere.
When I am done with a Task, where do I put notes for the entire Task? Don't
even know how to log out of the Task to say I'm done! HA! (You can point me to
the
Thanks Kevin,
will look at this validation data.
Pierre
De : Kevin Bullock kbull...@digitalglobe.com
À : 'William Morris' wboyk...@geosprocket.com; Pierre Béland
pierz...@yahoo.fr; hot@openstreetmap.org hot@openstreetmap.org
Envoyé le : Mercredi 29 avril 2015 17h24
Objet : RE:
OK, I see.
I mostly use the JOSM editor.
I have just been looking at the GUI for the iD editor. It's a shame it
doesn't support languages other than English. Some may not be able to read
the tool tips.
On 29 April 2015 at 22:38, Suzan Reed su...@suzanreed.com wrote:
Using iD OpenStreatMap
Here's a question that's probably answered somewhere.
When I am done with a Task, where do I put notes for the entire Task? Don't
even know how to log out of the Task to say I'm done! HA! (You can point me to
the information.)
Using iD OpenMapSource
Task #566
Sorry, tasks are tiles. The terminology may have changed at some point!
So, just type a comment in the the comment box, then click either unlock or
done. The comment will then be posted.
Only click done when the whole tile is completed. Use the unlock button if
there is still work to be done.
Awesome Jon,
We are all suffering of lack of sleep. We all need to be careful about this.
Great stuff. And quite important to assure fiability of our Navigation products.
It greatly help.
cheer
Pierre
De : kusala nine kusa...@googlemail.com
À : Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr
Cc :
On Apr 29, 2015 1:26 PM, Milo van der Linden m...@dogodigi.net wrote:
would it be an idea to add them to quakemap.org by adding a subcategory
under Help wanted?
Their map contains termporary data and has the ability to sign off once a
need is fullfilled (thanks to the wonderful ushahidi
Hi,
I am in a similar position (GIS professional, etc), though I started
playing with HOT a few months ago, so have some lead time to get ready.
I agree that getting all the tutorials in an obvious place is needed, it
took a long time to figure out what I needed to read.
But I found that more
Hey Jonathan,
Some more information you have on the wiki page of openstreetmap:
How to tag highways (roads, paths, etc):
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway
How to tag waterways:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:waterway
How to tag buldings:
Hi Eric,
I can't speak to DG's intent in using TomNod, though I assume there's a
visibility component. But to echo what Daniel said, the TomNod system has a
lower barrier to entry for new participants. This isn't to say that OSM
can't be made accessible - it would be fairly straightforward to
Folks,
You keep talking about them as if the whole world knows what
they are. Nobody does. Please stop using acronyms or always define an acronym.
Charlotte
Charlotte Wolter
927 18th Street Suite A
Santa Monica, California
90403
+1-310-597-4040
techl...@techlady.com
Skype:
On 04/28/2015 06:05 AM, Imre Samu wrote:
I have created a _temporary_ NEPAL Taginfo instance
taginfo
* Now at http://178.62.129.19/
* *Taginfo instance showing tagging statistics only for NEPAL**.
I can't find any of the HOT tags I know of
Hi,
Following this discussion, the Activation team feels that having an extra
step of validation than the one embedded in each TM job would be a great
asset to ensure a better quality and consistency for the OSM data produced
through the Activation.
If cleaning data or making it more consistent
Hi,
We just created a TM job http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1019 to add the
place names from the Public License GNS (GEONet Names Server)
http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/namefiles.htm data, in order to
facilitate the rescue operation in Nepal. As it is a job that requires a
strong OSM mapping
Hi Bill
For now, only the leaders of the activation. But we need help.
Responsabilities to define. Below are some thoutghts.
With the new post-imagery coming in, there are various products that can be
made. It would be possible to monitor the informal camps with the successive
post-disaster
Hello I work with Bond, which is the UK network of NGOs. I've posted some info
and links about what you are doing on the Nepal earthquake, and wondered if you
have an additional blog post or something for NGOs to encourage them to use the
maps, or additionally to encourage volunteers to get
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From: William Morris wboyk...@geosprocket.com
To: hot@openstreetmap.org hot@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [HOT] TomNod integration for the next time around
Message-ID
HI Folks,
Pete, thanks for the post. I added it. Communications Working group - can
you help with drupal access for Pete and a few others. Pierre or someone, I
have intermittent internet at home and am about to go to work, I can't hunt
for photos right now for the post. If someone can help
Hi Charlotte,
IDT or IDP? An IDP is an Internally Displaced Person. See, for example:
http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49c3646c146.html
Cheers, Joseph
On 29 April 2015 at 15:47, Charlotte Wolter techl...@techlady.com wrote:
Folks,
You keep talking about them as if the whole world knows
Filipe, those are good general references. There are Nepal-specific tracing
and tagging tips on
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nepal_remote_mapping_guide, especially
see the Common Features and Tagging sections.
Cheers, Brad
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 8:27 AM, Filipe Santana Lopes
You mean IDP = Internally Displaced Persons?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internally_displaced_person
http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49c3646c146.html
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Charlotte Wolter techl...@techlady.com
wrote:
Folks,
You keep talking about them as if the whole world
Jonathan,
Emergency mapping is by its nature a bit chaotic. We are working
to clarify the issues you raised and many others.
Please use the Tasking Master (http://tasks.hotosm.org) to find
areas that need mapping.
And don't worry if your work may not be dead accurate.
My only knowledge in HOT tagging, that: http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1008
and #1010 use this tags:
- idp:camp_site=spontaneous_camp
- damage:event=nepal_earthquake_2015
and can be find in the nepal-taginfo:
-http://nepal-taginfo.openstreetmap.hu/keys/idp%3Acamp_site
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