[HOT] Quick question on village mapping

Hi all, If you are adding field data to an existing shape (landuse=residential), would you tag the shape as place=village / name=whatever or would you add a node and tag the node. I've generally done the latter, but am seeing quite a few villages in Chad that conform to the former. Is there a be

Re: [HOT] Quick question on village mapping

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I usually go with a node just because it is a bit more resilliant in case of odd situations. For example a town/village that is multiple clusters of buildings separated by a river or some other feature. For these a node is the only option unless you

Re: [HOT] Hurricane Patricia Update: October 25

Hi all, I dont know if I am doing something wrong. I am reading up on the damage from patricia. here it says https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Patricia#Mexico "The small town of Chamela was completely leveled" but looking at this imagery tms[99]:https://api.mapbox.com/v4/digitalglobe.vivid-l

Re: [HOT] Hurricane Patricia Update: October 25

Hi Mike! Damage reports by media tells in general about some broken roads/bridges and flooded areas close to shore between La Manzanilla and Playa de Oro International Airport. Source: elinformador.com.mx Weather Channel You can access to DG recent imagery here http://www.digitalglobeblog.com/2

Re: [HOT] OSM based project in Bangladesh

Hi Marc, Thanks for your reply. No I havnt contacted with cadasta but i will do that soon. Interesting to see the link you shared and thakks for your understanding the project that I told in my mail. You are right, its not important whether the project is humanitarian or not, the matter is how to

Re: [HOT] Suggestion needed for designing an OSM based project

Thanks to all for your support and suggestion. Thanks Dale, I shall contact with cate before that I just wanted to some example if they exist. Thanks Blake, I also believe that OSM defers to local insights and understanding of what works best for the local community and its not important whether t

[HOT] Fix for issue 42

hi I fixed the bug 42 "Add maps.me export format " as my contribution for OPW. Can you please review it and revert back if anything is wrong. https://github.com/hotosm/osm-export-tool2/pull/101 Regards U.Nithiya Shree ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreet

[HOT] Fwd: HOT Newsletter: Edition 1

All, please enjoy the first edition of the HOT newsletter - we hope you'll choose to opt-in to future editions! http://hotosm.org/newsletter/subscription -- Forwarded message -- From: Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Date: Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 10:35 PM Subject: HOT Newsletter: Edi