[HOT] OSMCompare Before / After map

2015-06-02 Thread Pierre Béland
Various groups are using my OSMCompare Before / After map to show progress of the mapping. People are reporting today problems using the map. The Before layer corresponds to an old version of OSM back in 2012.  But we experience some instability for the access to this layer. The best solution wo

[HOT] Activations Working Group Meeting Today, 14:00 UTC

2015-06-02 Thread Blake Girardot
The Activations WG is meeting today Tuesday, Jun. 2nd, 2015 at 14:00 UTC via IRC Hi all, I do not have much of an agenda document yet, but I anticipate the meeting will focus on the Nepal activation and the challenges that it has presented as well

Re: [HOT] OSMCompare Before / After map

2015-06-02 Thread Harry Wood
Ah yeah. The "before" server is a bit broken: http://pierzen.dev.openstreetmap.org/hot/leaflet/OSM-Compare-before-after.html (on my fadey version too) http://harrywood.co.uk/maps/before-after.html The "before" server is actually "FOSM" the server set-up by the license change denying folks. It's

Re: [HOT] Activations Working Group Meeting Today, 14:00 UTC

2015-06-02 Thread Nick Allen
Blake Apology for absence. Im on a train on my way to London for a missing maps mapathon. Regards Nick On Tue, 2 Jun 2015 12:37 Blake Girardot wrote: > > The Activations WG is meeting today > Tuesday, Jun. 2nd, 2015 at 14:00 UTC via IRC > > > Hi a

Re: [HOT] OSMCompare Before / After map

2015-06-02 Thread john whelan
It very much depends where you're looking. It has its niche, there are some areas on FOSM that are quite active, it uses the OSM tool set but it is easier to use imported data than OSM as the .odbl license is not so well understood by other organisations. They also don't have the 6,000 new mappers

[HOT] Validation

2015-06-02 Thread john whelan
Could validators at least have the curtsy to read the project instructions before invalidating tiles because not all the buildings have been mapped on a project that does not require buildings to be mapped. I've brought it up in the Hot mailing group because although we talk about training for map