[HOT] Activation Work Group Meeting | 5th October 2016

Hello HOTties, The Activation WG meeting is set for 1430 UTC this Wednesday (5th October 2016) on IRC Chat [1], where we get together and discuss items related to activating on behalf of HOT. A lot of great items were discussed during the HOT Summit a couple weeks ago and it would be great to

[HOT] HOT Activating for #HurricaneMatthew

Dear HOT Community, It looks like Hurricane Matthew is going to have significant impacts across a wide area of Haiti and Jamaica both and affect over 1 million people. OSM data is already being requested for Haiti and Milo has been leading the efforts to fill in map data on Jamaica. Because of

[HOT] Improving data quality of Maperthons

I think we have to accept that maperthon mappers will not map an exact number of tiles. Whether that is half a tile, two and quarter tiles it doesn’t matter. We still need to catch the errors they make and if they are spread out over a project on tiles that are not marked done they are difficult

Re: [HOT] JOSM for HOT can someone point me at a basic tutorial?

These are exceptionally good, however I missed any reference to View, Toggle dialogs panel, which is important as if you hit the tab key all the menus disappear and you have to know to hit the tab again to get them back. It's probably mentioned and I missed it but it might be worthwhile checking

Re: [HOT] JOSM for HOT can someone point me at a basic tutorial?

Hello John, Here are the JOSM tutorial that our team used in training: - Chapter 4: Getting started with JOSM - Chapter 5: Editing with JOSM

Re: [HOT] JOSM for HOT can someone point me at a basic tutorial?

Perhaps another question might simply be how would you use them and what is the advantage of just adding tags? Do I assume you draw a way and instead of tagging it conventionally you go the the preset menu, select the appropriate preset which then applies the tags? Seems slower to me with more

Re: [HOT] JOSM for HOT can someone point me at a basic tutorial?

Strangely enough I've never used JOSM presets, what is the advantage? Thanks John On 2 October 2016 at 08:16, yo paseopor wrote: > Also there is a HOT preset (you can activate it in Preferences > Presets > for JOSM. > > yopaseopor > >

Re: [HOT] JOSM for HOT can someone point me at a basic tutorial?

Also there is a HOT preset (you can activate it in Preferences > Presets for JOSM. yopaseopor ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

Re: [HOT] JOSM for HOT can someone point me at a basic, tutorial?

The French tutorial is actually very useful. I'm working in the odd corners of Africa at the moment. The mappers come from all over the world often working in maperthons. I think my hang up is data quality so I mainly do validation these days. I think in the last week I've tagged over a

Re: [HOT] JOSM for HOT can someone point me at a basic, tutorial?

Hi John, We also have similar tutorial in French (I know, not very helpful here, would it be relevant to translate it?): http://blog.cartong.org/2014/07/24/tuto-digitaliser-sous-openstreetmap-avec-le-tasking-manager-et-josm-premiers-pas/ Else the video Blake sent is the best we have I