Re: [HOT] Camp of training in Dosso, Niger

2017-11-11 Thread Rupert Allan
Fantastic! This looks great. Look forward to reading all about it. Thanks for your work Samalia. Rupert Sent on the move. Rupert Allan Country/Project Manager - Uganda E-Mail: rupert.al...@hotosm.org East Africa: +256 792 297795 UK: +44 7970 540 647 Skype: Reuben Molotov Humanitarian Open

Re: [HOT] Recent building mapping in Malawi

2017-11-11 Thread Frans Schutz
You are right. I see that as often as well. For sure beginners who start with ID and even start validating after a few Mapping sessions in which the most elementry taggings went wrong. It would help if there is a mechanism in HOT task mgr which not allows to start validating from ID or when a mapp

Re: [HOT] Recent building mapping in Malawi

2017-11-11 Thread Bjoern Hassler
Hi John, hi Frans, We did write a basic tool that can pick up errors new mappers are making: https://github.com/OSM-Utilities/JOSM-Scripts-HOT It's meant to do exactly what you say: Spot issues as soon as possible, i.e. ideally during a mapathon or at the start of a new campaign. The tool present

[HOT] Mapping of Diffa and N'guigmi (Niger) for ICRC

2017-11-11 Thread Martin Noblecourt
Congratulations Samaila, this sounds like a great training. For those interested in mapping Niger, CartONG is currently supporting OSM-Ne in mapping the city of Diffa and N'guigmi. The data will be used by the International Committee of the Red Cross for water & sanitation projects. You can

Re: [HOT] Recent building mapping in Malawi

2017-11-11 Thread john whelan
I think some projects / maperthons are better organised than others. The low hanging fruit for project managers is manage your project and some how get your hands on a tool to catch the errors early. A manual validator with JOSM if you can find one works extremely well for data quality. Cheerio