[HOT] Dhaka tasks updated w new imagery

2015-05-02 Thread Daniel Joseph
Hello Everyone, I know there's a lot of focus on Nepal right now. If there are any experienced editors who want to help out on another area, we could use some help getting parts of Dhaka, Bangladesh traced. The HIU just released some NextView imagery. The tracing is difficult due to the quality

Re: [HOT] Gentle grump

2015-03-06 Thread Daniel Joseph
Hey Ray, Some shortcuts for JOSM are here http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Keyboard_Shortcuts The learning materials for OSM are constantly being developed and improved. MapGive created some nice intro materials http://mapgive.state.gov/learn-to-map/. HOT is still actively working on

[HOT] imagery offset in task #878?

2015-02-05 Thread Daniel Joseph
Hi All, The difference between Bing and the supplied NextView imagery for task #878 Missing Maps: Akobo, South Sudan is about 15 m in one of the task tiles. Doesn't seem like there is a whole lot of pre-existing data. My past observations are that we usually align to Bing. What should be done in

Re: [HOT] why is the imagery I see going gray?

2014-11-19 Thread Daniel Joseph
Hi Ray, When editing and zooming in that area, the Bing imagery at the higher zoom level is switching to a different acquisition date/time and the imagery for higher zoom levels has cloud cover (the gray obscuring the screen). If you pan NE to around 12.34869/-9.10189 you'll start to get out of

Re: [HOT] Ebola Outbreak Activation

2014-07-07 Thread Daniel Joseph
Hey, Task 568 (Ebola Outbreak, Sierra Leone, Kailahun district) has in the instructions to attribute the changeset as source=DigitalGlobe/Mapbox but includes nothing about how to access imagery other than the standard Bing? The wiki has this tms[19]: