[HOT] HA/DR geospatial products

All, It’s been a while since I posted. I’m a U.S. Army officer in the 130th Engineer Brigade in Hawaii. As our area of responsibility (the Pacific) annually has many disasters, we exercise disaster relief pretty regularly. For Intelligence / Geospatial we specifically hold an exercise

[HOT] #Map4Ebola DRC OpenStreetMap Response to 2017 Ebola outbreak : 24-May 2017 priority mapping work

Hi all, On behalf of Claire Halleux and resulting from her coordination work in DRC, current priority mapping task for the OSM response to the Ebola outbreak URL of Mapping Task 3075 (project #12): http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/3075 Excellent everning Nicolas -- Nicolas Chavent Les Libres

[HOT] OSM Tasking Manager version 3 - Need translation help!

Dear Friends, As you many know, we have been developing the next generation of our OSM Tasking Manager, the main software application that makes your humanitarian community mapping work possible. It is now at a stage where we can start translating the user interface of the application. If you

Re: [HOT] #Map4Ebola DRC OpenStreetMap Response to 2017 Ebola outbreak : 23-May 2017 priority mapping work

Hi Claire, Thanks for the answer - interesting stuff! Thanks! Bjoern On 24 May 2017 at 10:44, Claire Halleux wrote: > Hi Bjoern, > > The residential areas were extracted from the OSM database using overpass > download. A 25 meters buffer was applied to the polygons

Re: [HOT] #Map4Ebola DRC OpenStreetMap Response to 2017 Ebola outbreak : 23-May 2017 priority mapping work

Hi Bjoern, The residential areas were extracted from the OSM database using overpass download. A 25 meters buffer was applied to the polygons before importing them into the tasking manager. In the present case, it was done as a zipped shapefile (although I usually rather use geojson). In the

Re: [HOT] #Map4Ebola DRC OpenStreetMap Response to 2017 Ebola outbreak : 23-May 2017 priority mapping work

Ah - always read the instructions. It was a previous project. How do you get the individual areas into the task manager though - just have a kml with multiple polygons? Bjoern On Wed, 24 May 2017 at 10:11, Bjoern Hassler wrote: > Hi all, > > Can I just ask how the

Re: [HOT] #Map4Ebola DRC OpenStreetMap Response to 2017 Ebola outbreak : 23-May 2017 priority mapping work

Hi all, Can I just ask how the residential areas were generated in the first place? Was that a manual process? Then, how do you get them as tasks into the task manager? (Rather than square tiles) Bjoern On Wed, 24 May 2017 at 00:59, Kretzer wrote: > > > If you'd have