Re: [HOT] HOT Digest, Vol 47, Issue 33

Thank you Johnny for raising that query. I too have been reluctant to touch other people's work as there are validators who are a bit more experienced to do that. I too shall now consider amendments if it is a glaring error. Ralph Aytoun Retired Cartographer On 29 January 2014 05:32, wrote: > S

[HOT] HOT Projects

Hi All, To start, congratulations to all the new voting members, to the newly elected Board and the new Chair. Also to say thank you for a very user friendly system that has been put in place so far. I know you have quite a lot on your plate trying to make sense of the spate of Humanitarian project

Re: [HOT] Humanitarian Mapping

Hello Tom, Stephen Beckett at BBC, Click [] is putting together a documentary on the HOT mapping of Lubumbashi where they used printouts from OSM's request for emergency mapping, and may well be what you are looking for to show your students. Hope this helps Ralph Message: 2 Date: Fri, 25 Apr 20

Re: [HOT] Ebola Outbreak Activation

In Vol 53 Issue 35 I see mentioned that you want to close down the eastern part of Task 568 because there is no imagery. I looked at one of the eastern tiles, the top left hand corner, one tile down (the one below Masundu). I could not get any imagery from the Mapbox that was mentioned in the Task

Re: [HOT] Validating & TM2 - a send message button?

Hi all, I was very grateful when I was contacted and made aware of an issue that I was unaware of as a beginner and it has helped me to improve my input. I believe it is necessary to be able to give this kind of constructive assistance to those who are giving their time and contributions to the p

Re: [HOT] Houses or buildings with no roof in W Africa mapping

I have been putting these buildings in as building=construction but they can also be simply building=no_roof or barrier=wall to indicate that there is a structure there to help the people on the ground identify where they are and indicate that there is something there. It is not possible for mappin

[HOT] Ebola outbreak, #672

Hi all, I have opened the following square 153 for the task #672 Ebola Outbreak, Port Loko, Bombali district, road network http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/672#task/153 containing the town Makeni. This square has been worked on and amended at various stages in the past few years. What I am findi

Re: [HOT] Ebola outbreak, #672

Thanks for all the advice. I will try some of that to see if it helps my problem. ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

[HOT] HOTOSM #699: About identification of plantations (HOTOSM #699: About identification of plantations in Africa (as for cassava, manioc)

I have looked at the imagery and this detail is easily identified. I have started tagging it as landuse=plantation and species=cassava (manioc) If there is a problem with this tagging please let me know and I can change it. I am making a note of where I am doing this in case it changes. The oth

Re: [HOT] Newbie support for Missing Maps

I have attended two Tuesday evening Missing Maps Mapathons so far. The problem with mapping is it's appearance. These newbies have seen the OpenStreetMap as it should look like, they have seen printed maps all neatly drawn with understandable colours and names telling them what things are. When th

[HOT] Waterway Tags

I would like to raise the issue of tags for *waterway=river*, *waterway=stream* and* waterway=wadi.* The problem that exists with the existing tags is that there is no visual difference on the map for a stream (perennial) and a stream (intermittent) and the only other option is wadi which gives a b

Re: [HOT] Waterway Tags

Hi Blake and Russell, thanks...you have pointed me to the lists I need to approach regarding this. Great help and saved me a lot of nosing around. I understand some of the problems of waterways. As Senior Cartographer for Philip's World Reference Atlases I had to find a happy medium trying to make

[HOT] AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGH!

If I don't scream I will end up tearing my hair out. We need to change what we are doing and who we are letting in to do it. These Activations in response to a disaster means that people's lives are at stake here. I am finding totally inexperienced mappers (some with no completed tiles and others w

Re: [HOT] AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGH!

the Task manager - >> Tasks completed by contributors less then xx months of experience ?? >> >> Should we have a team of validators that work together and identify ways >> to go on with validation and assure both quick response and quality? >> >> >> Pierre &

Re: [HOT] AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGH!

I am in favour of the direction Severin is proposing regarding privileges. If we can stop new mappers from opening tiles that have been validated by an experienced person then the integrity of the work is maintained as is. I have mentioned in the past about the "losing" HOT Activations amongst the

[HOT] Google Chrome Browser

I thought it might be useful to share this. I do not yet know how it will fully affect JOSM. I received this notification "We have detected you are using Google Chrome and might be unable to use the Java plugin from this browser. Starting with Version 42 (released April 2015) Chrome has disabled

Re: [HOT] Google Chrome users

After having investigated the Java plugin situation with Google Chrome I have found there is a way to enable the NPAPI that has been disabled. 1. Open your Chrome web browser. 2. In the URL panel at the top type in chrome://flags/#enable-npapi 3. Click the "Enable" link for Enable NPAPI. 4.