Re: [HOT] Maps.Me in Tanzania

2016-04-20 Thread Janet Chapman
Thank you so much Blake, Maps.Me is brilliant, just trying to work out the best way to ensure we get as accurate data as possible as most people in rural Tanzania are mapping onto pretty blank canvases... Janet Janet Chapman - Campaigns Manager and Project Officer

Re: [HOT] Mapathons for Ecuador

2016-04-20 Thread Russell Deffner
Hi Andreas – the wonders of the internet as I think we were both talking with Andrew at the same time, just different channels :) We will continue to release projects, I expect at least for the next several days, potentially weeks as ‘post-event’ imagery is now being captured and processed

Re: [HOT] Mapathons for Ecuador

2016-04-20 Thread Dr. Andreas Reimer
Hi Russ and Humberto, hi list! Starting on April 21st (around 2am Ecuador time), I will be gathering 20 GIS-people for further training (Kassel, Germany). My plan is to train them in JOSM and help with the mapping efforts for Ecuador. Via Andrew buck I am told new imagery will be available

[HOT] Mapathons for Ecuador

2016-04-20 Thread Russell Deffner
Greetings everyone, You can help us coordinate this response! The easiest way is to help us capture 'dynamic' information, such as news reports; but more importantly - Mapathons. We typically capture this information on an event wiki-page, and we are currently getting this one a bit more

Re: [HOT] Maps.Me in Tanzania

2016-04-20 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Janet, I also forwarded your email to Illya, one of the maps.me developers. But Joost's email just reminded me that we are in the process of creating a maps.me export for our HOT Export Tool that would allow you to get an up to the minute set of data for maps.me anytime you want, so you

[HOT] Data quality in Ecuador

2016-04-20 Thread john whelan
The good news is it’s a lot better than Nepal was. I think most of that’s down to better training guides so well done training. In Nepal we saw a lot of tiles marked done or validated when there was still a lot to do. So in Ecuador if there are more than two or three buildings missing I’ve been

Re: [HOT] Data quality in Ecuador

2016-04-20 Thread john whelan
Whilst I'm writing I should mention that a mixture of metal roofs, slight over exposure and slight fuzziness means its sometimes hard to precisely pick out the buildings although I have noticed my 1920 x 1080 monitor in the basement shows a much better image quality than one of the laptops I have

[HOT] FW: [Geo4All] humanitarian mapathons for Japan and Ecuador

2016-04-20 Thread Suchith Anand
From: GeoForAll [geoforall-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Marco Minghini [marco.minghin...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2016 4:41 PM To: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org Cc: Cristiano Giovando; Tyler Radford Subject: [Geo4All] humanitarian mapathons for

[HOT] mapathon at GEOlab

2016-04-20 Thread Marco Minghini
Dear all, the GEOlab (Geomatics and Earth Observation laboratory) of Politecnico di Milano is hosting a mapathon today to contribute to the mapping efforts after the earthquakes in Japan and Ecuador. Details here [1]. All the best, Marco [1] http://geolab.como.polimi.it/?page_id=2150 Marco

Re: [HOT] Maps.Me in Tanzania

2016-04-20 Thread Imre Samu
They have a github dev page [ https://github.com/mapsme/omim ] and probably you can create an issue [ https://github.com/mapsme/omim/issues ] from their github page: "Feedback: Please report bugs and suggestions to the issue tracker, or by mail to b...@maps.me." 2016-04-20 5:38 GMT+02:00