Re: [HOT] newbie needs advice

Hello Master Cpl. Carriere, OK, glad to hear that.  From the list of problems and concerns brought forward on the twitter session earlier, it definitely sounded like accuracy and consistency of the OSM editing might be suspect.  Dragging their photos around to force the alignment of diffe

Re: [HOT] newbie needs advice - connecting paths

I disagree. In a case like you mention - a path, then an open area, then a path again - in my opinion there is a path across the open space, just one that is not easily visible in the terrain. Having gaps in ways seriously undermines the usability of the database. On 6 May 2015 03:54, "Suzan Reed"

Re: [HOT] newbie needs advice

*I'm not sure if succesful GIS is a crowd activity.* *I've asked but heard nothing about the end use of all this activity. Is it serving the folks on the ground?* OSM crowd activity is very successful, speaking from the Canadian Forces DART deployed on the ground. I've printed so far 300+ hardco

Re: [HOT] Should Newbies (Me) keep mapping houses and "easy" features?

Laura, I think you're describing the function of building tools helpful when tracing a row of parallel buildings. Trace one building, select it and leave it selected. Each building thereafter can be traced with 2 clicks and will be parallel to the already selected one. As Julian said, make sur

Re: [HOT] newbie needs advice

Hi, See http://learnosm.org/en/coordination/remote/ as well. May help with some of the queries. Nick (OSM=Tallguy) dodgy didgits as using a phone with a spell chequer. Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Member On 6 May 2015 00:22, "Pierre Béland" wrote: > Springfield, > > The informations about

Re: [HOT] Good Twitter chat happening now at #geowebchat on HOT and OSM and Nepal

Hi Tom, Alan (cc’d) was going to post it on his blog: http://mappingmashups.net/ - might take a day or so for him to do so, or you can search twitter as Andrew just replied. =Russ From: Tom McDonald [mailto:tmcd...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2015 9:12 PM To: Andrew Wiseman Cc:

Re: [HOT] Good Twitter chat happening now at #geowebchat on HOT and OSM and Nepal

On twitter, search for the #geowebchat hashtag El martes, 5 de mayo de 2015, Tom McDonald escribió: > Re: Worth a read. > > Where can I read it? > > Tom > > On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Andrew Wiseman > wrote: > >> There's a good conversation happening now, with some good suggestions too >>

Re: [HOT] Good Twitter chat happening now at #geowebchat on HOT and OSM and Nepal

Re: Worth a read. Where can I read it? Tom On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Andrew Wiseman wrote: > There's a good conversation happening now, with some good suggestions too > -- one person mentioned that many of the tasks are for experienced mappers, > so it's hard for newbies to contribute,

Re: [HOT] newbie needs advice - connecting paths

Walking in Nepal one can be on a path and it will suddenly disappear, and then you walk across open ground to your destination. People don't necessarily walk on a path, especially between houses, and houses in the same "village" can be a quarter mile away or more. Knowing this, I have not connec

Re: [HOT] Good Twitter chat happening now at #geowebchat on HOT and OSM and Nepal

Happened at night in nepal, so couldn't join. But we've had many requests of tasks that are more appropriate for newbies. On Wed, May 6, 2015, 1:19 AM Andrew Wiseman wrote: > There's a good conversation happening now, with some good suggestions too > -- one person mentioned that many of the task

Re: [HOT] newbie needs advice - connecting paths

Hi, I was also wondering about the best approach to connecting paths. On one hand all highways only make sense when they are connected, on the other it does not feel good to me to guess too freely where an invisible path might go. Particularly in steep terrain paths that are quite close horizont

Re: [HOT] Stats for HOT and OSM in Nepal -- users and editors

Thanks for doing it, Andrew. On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 2:26 AM, Andrew Wiseman wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm writing a blog post about HOT's work in Nepal, does anyone have > numbers or stats (or how can I find them) on what has been added? Things > like number of users working on HOT tasks, new users,

Re: [HOT] newbie needs advice

Springfield, The informations about the various communication channels are at the beginning of the wiki for the Nepal response.http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2015_Nepal_earthquake IRC is a tool similar to Skype. The difference, it is a public forum. You simply connect and provide a nickname

Re: [HOT] Should Newbies (Me) keep mapping houses and "easy" features?

For the building_tool press escape if it plays up. Generally its OK but if its if the static levels are high I sometimes find a moist or damp cloth helps wiped across the pad. ie hardware issue it doesn't seem to play up with an external mouse. Cheerio John On 5 May 2015 at 18:32, laura brittai

Re: [HOT] Should Newbies (Me) keep mapping houses and "easy" features?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1   Hi, "It works for awhile and then automatically starts making rectangles with only two clicks. And not in the right directions." Ensure you don't have selected anything. Otherwise it will snap in some angl

Re: [HOT] newbie needs advice

Hi Spring, Please take a look at the coordination wiki-page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2015_Nepal_earthquake There you will find links to IRC , examples of usage, write-ups and interviews in the media, and much more. Of course this is

Re: [HOT] Should Newbies (Me) keep mapping houses and "easy" features?

Thank you Steve, And another question for anyone: Does anyone know how to make the JOSM building tools plug-in behave? It works for awhile and then automatically starts making rectangles with only two clicks. And not in the right directions. I can't find any trouble shooting online for this plug i

Re: [HOT] newbie needs advice

I couldn't find a thing on the IRC, I thought it was something to do with the Intl Red Cross, silly me. Information sources are hugely fragmented. I don't get a sense of leadership, just random action. I'm not sure if succesful GIS is a crowd activity. I've asked but heard nothing about the en

Re: [HOT] Wiki: HOT UserBox

Thanks for pointing this out Andreas, We really try to not make any stink about volunteers versus 'official' folks - we are one big HOT community. I'll hand this over to the Community Working Group to see if they'd like to alter the user box(es). Happy Mapping, =Russ Russell Deffner Chairpers

Re: [HOT] Tracing tagged buildings

In Nepal villages are not a group of buildings close together. Buildings can be 100 to 500 feet apart, and yet everyone who lives there considers themselves a part of the community. I see small Residential Area designations around a small group of buildings, but this may be just one family or

Re: [HOT] newbie needs advice

Dear Blake, It would be great if you could answer this on the list as I have many of the same questions. MingyurPema On May 5, 2015, at 8:42 AM, Blake Girardot wrote: I am going to answer some of this via irc. Cheers, Blake On 5/5/2015 5:34 PM, Katja Ulbert wrote: > Hi all, > > I am a n

[HOT] Nepal Earhquake, Pictures / Visuals to show products used in the field - Mapping progress

Medias are interested about more information on this Nepal response. It would be great to have more pictures of people using the products in the field. Statistics, Map Before & After would be great also. My OSMCompare Before / After map is using for comparison data from 2012. Anyone as a tms / w

Re: [HOT] Stats for HOT and OSM in Nepal -- users and editors

is this it? http://osm.townsendjennings.com/nepal/ On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Andrew Wiseman wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm writing a blog post about HOT's work in Nepal, does anyone have > numbers or stats (or how can I find them) on what has been added? Things > like number of users working on

[HOT] Stats for HOT and OSM in Nepal -- users and editors

Hi all, I'm writing a blog post about HOT's work in Nepal, does anyone have numbers or stats (or how can I find them) on what has been added? Things like number of users working on HOT tasks, new users, buildings, etc? I remember seeing some site named for a person (townsend or something?) with s

Re: [HOT] Nepal data validation: overpass script to identify the recent mappers?

Wouldn't it be easier to just create a tool that draws a box/rectangle?  That is a common GIS drawing activity. I'm new to this (but not to GIS/GPS mapping) but does this project really need building footprints in every case?  Points might suffice initially in the interests of simplicity/expedien

Re: [HOT] Nepal data validation: overpass script to identify the recent mappers?

I have a python script which will analyse all buildings in a bounding box and output those with a large "skew" - where the diagonals don't match (within a tolerance). It uses overpass API and will also output changeset/user info. I'll post a link to it tomorrow once I've finished user options. Migh

[HOT] Good Twitter chat happening now at #geowebchat on HOT and OSM and Nepal

There's a good conversation happening now, with some good suggestions too -- one person mentioned that many of the tasks are for experienced mappers, so it's hard for newbies to contribute, for example. Worth a read. Andrew ___ HOT mailing list HOT@opens

Re: [HOT] #geowebchat about the Nepal activation and how to get newbies to contribute productively

Never too late. Will try to join in too with few minutes to 19H00 UTC at my end. Best, - Enock twitter: @Enock4seth enockseth.blogspot.com | [[User:Enock4seth]] On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 5:57 PM, FOFANA BAZO BAGNOUMANA < fofana.13b...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good idea, i will joint un This discussion

Re: [HOT] #geowebchat about the Nepal activation and how to get newbies to contribute productively

Good idea, i will joint un This discussions Le 5 mai 2015 17:52, "Heather Leson" a écrit : > Thanks! > > Pierre is set to help out ! But more is moar :) > On May 5, 2015 8:46 PM, "Alan McConchie" wrote: > >> Hi everyone, this is short notice, but we're having a #geowebchat twitter >> chat today

Re: [HOT] #geowebchat about the Nepal activation and how to get newbies to contribute productively

Hey Alan, Thanks for letting us know. This is an extremely important topic and I will definitely be attending! Cheers, Mhairi On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Alan McConchie wrote: > Hi everyone, this is short notice, but we're having a #geowebchat twitter > chat today (Tuesday May 5) at 12pm

Re: [HOT] #geowebchat about the Nepal activation and how to get newbies to contribute productively

Thanks! Pierre is set to help out ! But more is moar :) On May 5, 2015 8:46 PM, "Alan McConchie" wrote: > Hi everyone, this is short notice, but we're having a #geowebchat twitter > chat today (Tuesday May 5) at 12pm PDT (19:00 UTC). > > We're going to be talking about some of the issues around

[HOT] #geowebchat about the Nepal activation and how to get newbies to contribute productively

Hi everyone, this is short notice, but we're having a #geowebchat twitter chat today (Tuesday May 5) at 12pm PDT (19:00 UTC). We're going to be talking about some of the issues around newbies mapping that have been raised on this mailing list. Claus Rinner has a good blog post summarizing some

Re: [HOT] Tracing tagged buildings

"Mapping an area landuse=residential tightly takes more time than a quick looser area say 25% larger" Good call... Perhaps then, tightly mapped Land Use can emerge more organically out of all the preliminary first response mapping activities and data that is created in the first waves of action, t

Re: [HOT] FW: buildings were deleted

Don't worry, I guess this could be a one time issue for a crisis mapper . A way to avoid this --shorts moments of anguish-- is always check if data are avaible (with ID, JOSM or layer button in OSM frontend). 2015-05-05 10:21 GMT-05:00 Dan Marsh : > It can take some time for new OSM map tiles to

[HOT] Nepal Earthquake: Situation Report (May 5)

http://kathmandulivinglabs.org/blog/nepal-earthquake-report-from-kll-situation-room-day-10-may-5/ Nama Nama R. Budhathoki, Ph.D. Executive Director, Kathmandu Living Labs *(www.kathmandulivinglabs.org

Re: [HOT] newbie needs advice

I am going to answer some of this via irc. Cheers, Blake On 5/5/2015 5:34 PM, Katja Ulbert wrote: Hi all, I am a newbie coming up with a few questions, It would be great if someone with more knowledge could take the time to answer them. They don´t have to be answered here and now or via maili

[HOT] newbie needs advice

Hi all, I am a newbie coming up with a few questions, It would be great if someone with more knowledge could take the time to answer them. They don´t have to be answered here and now or via mailinglist, I am also on IRC #hot as katjaulbert. I am mapping in task #1018. 1) Paths: I have come a

Re: [HOT] FW: buildings were deleted

It can take some time for new OSM map tiles to be rendered, and tiles must be rendered for each zoom level. This means things may disappear when zooming, until all tiles are up to date. On 5 May 2015 at 12:46, S Volk wrote: > Sorry, the buildings now appear. But I don't know why it just showed

Re: [HOT] URGENT Post-disaster Job for east of Kathmandu - For experienced mappers

No.  This will be usefull for international organizations such as IOM to monitor these camps. We prepare specific tasks to take care of this. We need to report the status of camps. This will be taken care by people revising these camp status. They will put a specific attribute.  regard  Pierr

Re: [HOT] URGENT Post-disaster Job for east of Kathmandu - For experienced mappers

Some places marked previously as spontaneous_camp are empty now. They have moved into houses. Should we delete these camps now? On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Heather Leson wrote: > Thanks so much. Denis, happy to hear that the contributor's efforts are > helping. > > Heather > On May 5, 2015

Re: [HOT] #1018 squaring buildings

You can find the buildings where you are the last editor via Overpass: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/9bm -Original-Nachricht- Betreff: Re: [HOT] #1018 squaring buildings Datum: Tue, 05 May 2015 14:19:50 +0200 Von: Tom Ayerst An: m902

Re: [HOT] #1018 squaring buildings

Sure, go there : http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/*yourusername*/history or Click on your profile name on top right, then on the list on My profile, then in the page on My edits On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Tom Ayerst wrote: > I am guilty of this. I did not realise there was a squaring too

Re: [HOT] #1018 squaring buildings

I am guilty of this. I did not realise there was a squaring tool on the ID editor (There is, its in the halo of tools round an existing feature). I have been picking tasks at random, is there a way of finding which areas I have worked on so I can go back and fix the buildings I have drawn? Thank

[HOT] FW: buildings were deleted

Sorry, the buildings now appear. But I don't know why it just showed half of them before. Sorry. Guess I'm tired. Sérgio From: svo...@hotmail.com To: hot@openstreetmap.org Subject: buildings were deleted Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 08:42:16 -0300 Hi, I was passing my eyes to see actual situation in

[HOT] buildings were deleted

Hi, I was passing my eyes to see actual situation in Langtang here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=19/28.19817/85.45514 , when I saw that it seems someone deleted many buildings that were there before (like hostels Ghoda Tabela Lovely Hostel, etc, even the label of place), they still rend

Re: [HOT] data alignment to satellite imagery

Thanks althio! One important thing from those docs is specifying the offset in the offset db once it's computed and then letting other mappers using the HIU DG imagery know. Let me say more concretely what I want to do: -- Compute the appropriate average shift based on the areas around Borang wh

[HOT] Thank you to every mapper

Hello, Thank you all for all your contributions: every edit, every phone call, every email, every negotiation, and every last minute you have shared. I checked the stats and see that there was over 4000 contributors. Many of you have been tireless teachers, some of you are new and learning. It take

[HOT] #1018 squaring buildings

Hi, I've noticed a number of new mappers not squaring buildings for #1018. Could the instructions be updated to ask for buildings to be squared? It looks wrong to me, and I will always square buildings (unless they are obviously not square, of course). Perhaps it doesn't matter? Thanks Martin __

Re: [HOT] Bad image quality

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hell yeah guys. That's awesome, this new imagery from DigitalGlobe are awesome, way better than Bing. Thanks for your help both. Have a nice day. Greg Le 05. 05. 15 09:05, Nick Allen a écrit : > Jean-Guilhem > > Thanks for that. I'm only using my

Re: [HOT] data alignment to satellite imagery

Hi Pat, If I understand your request correctly here are some keywords: offset, align, misalignement, georectification and some links http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Using_Imagery http://learnosm.org/en/editing/correcting-imagery-offset/ @Joshua I would recommend using the "fix alignment" tool

Re: [HOT] Learning to Edit

Hello Heather & Piere, Attempting to mark helipads on #1026-236 but OpenCycleMap not available. Need contours and elevations to assess landing sites properly. Found it in JOSM. Are the contour elevations in metres? They seem quite low - 1500m, even lower if feet. Can I overlay the conto

[HOT] Issues copy+pasting tags in iD

We have had volunteer mappers reporting in asking how to add multiple tags to every objects in iD: - landuse=brownfield - damage:event=nepal_earthquake_2015 - source=DigitalGlobe, 2015-05-03 Its extremely tedious to add multiple custom tags in iD manually for every object and we should p

Re: [HOT] Bad image quality

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Thanks guys, I'm at work now, I'll try this later at home on my desktop. Have a nice day. Greg Le 05. 05. 15 09:05, Nick Allen a écrit : > Jean-Guilhem > > Thanks for that. I'm only using my phone at the moment and was > having problems trying to

Re: [HOT] Bad image quality

Jean-Guilhem Thanks for that. I'm only using my phone at the moment and was having problems trying to find an answer. Greg, Jean-Guilhem is the real expert on this. Get back in touch if still having problems. Nick (OSM=Tallguy) dodgy didgits as using a phone with a spell chequer. Humanitaria

Re: [HOT] Bad image quality

Hi Greg, You can also try with the post-event DigitalGlobe imagery, that has a broad coverage, including of the area near Borang where you are mapping. It is for example linked from the instructions for job 1030 http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1030 URL for JOSM: tms:http://imagery.openstreetmap