Re: [HOT] Advice needed: field mapping in Central African Republic

You could also consider the use of reference_point=yes essentially for all of these as the whole idea of that tag is to highlight those map objects that are used as navigation landmarks. (You should of course still have a "main tag" when reference_point is not the only classifying tag.) The refere

[HOT] HOT Community Calls reminder (this Wednesday and Thursday)

Dear HOT community, As a friendly reminder, we are having three HOT Community Calls on Mumble over the next couple of days (first one in about 12 hours). Anyone from the community is welcome to join and I hope you all will try to attend one of the sessions or more. There are a lot of things sprin

Re: [HOT] Not Gone...A Change in Relationship

Dear Kate & all in the HOT community, Kate: While being happy for you for your exciting new work opportunity I must say that I am not just sad to see you leave but slightly shocked. And I know I'm not alone in my feeling this. You've been one of the few truly crucial people in building HOT to bec

Re: [HOT] West Africa Ebola Outbreak More Jobs for Mali

Hi Fran, Regarding uploads and also photo management more generally with Mapillary: 1) photo management : I have taken a backup of pretty much all Mapillary photos I've taken using an external hard drive (and backing those up to another external hard drive that I eventually copy to my file archiv

Re: [HOT] West Africa Ebola Outbreak More Jobs for Mali

Hi Pierre, Just a question-comment on the photos aspect of the field verification: On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Pierre Béland wrote: > These teams will take geolocated pictures of the infrastructures and > documen them Do you happen to know what system/process they have for the photos tak

Re: [HOT] Additional mailing lists for the HOT Working Groups?

Hi Blake, Claire, Pierre & all, Thanks for the question and your thoughts. This is an issue the Board discussed in our meeting face to face I think in a couple of different places (communication channels, group interactions, engagement). But we didn't get to a solution that would be presentable a

Re: [HOT] Moderators for the Mailing List

I'd like to add a welcoming spin to Kate's request: Being a moderator is a simple task; but important as Kate noted. Anyone in the HOT community will be able to do it. Just to repeat, the main job is to be the human eye to detect if an incoming email is spam or not. The current moderators are Mik

Re: [HOT] TM2 Feedback for contributors

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 7:30 PM, Blake Girardot wrote: > Some new mappers are never going to mark a square done because they just > do not feel like the know enough to say it is done. This reminds me: Do we capture (and store) information on who locks (aka. reserves) squares? (Asking because it

[HOT] Governance WG 1st meeting minutes and proposal for change of quorum for voting members' meeting

Dear all, In short: The Governance Working Group's first meeting went well. After discussion the WG proposes that the HOT bylaws' quorum requirement would be changed from the current majority requirement to one-quarter (1/4) for voting members' meetings. A special meeting of the voting members sh

Re: [HOT] Governance WG 1st meeting this Wednesday August 13, 3pm (UTC)

Hi all, Just a reminder that we will have the Governance WG meeting starting on about 20 minutes. I hope that all participants can connect to Mumble to make talking smoother. Let's see how this works out and use IRC if need be. Cheers, -Jaakko On Aug 10, 2014 9:25 PM, "Jaakko Hell

[HOT] Governance WG 1st meeting this Wednesday August 13, 3pm (UTC)

Hi all, Let's have the first Governance Working Group meeting this upcoming Wednesday, August 13 at 3pm UTC (please note all people to whom daylight savings/summer time applies

[HOT] Governance WG 1st meeting next week - please note your availability!

Dear all, As a follow-up to Mikel's email on boosting the working groups I'd like to call for the first meeting of the Governance Working Group for next week. First and foremost: As a quick check for interested people's avail

[HOT] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Drop rendering of permissive access?

Does anyone else who has been living / mapping more in developing countries feel the same as I do about this tag? That is to say that it seems that all of the commentators (to this moment) feel that access=permissive is quite useless and at least shouldn't be rendered by the Mapnik style (as you c

Re: [HOT] Transifex translation service for HOT projects

This is good. As for it not being open source, neither is Github - and we do use Google's services quite a lot too.. (Hopefully less over time but that's another topic.) More importantly I've found it to be very nice, easy to learn and use. I haven't used many translation tools but I've tried a few

Re: [HOT] Question habout the http://export.hotosm.org for South America

If it's possible to add these areas would it be possible to also add Nicaragua and El Salvador, which are between the two "bands" Yann listed and add very little data Mb-wise? It would be great for OSM activities in Nicaragua + given the recent higher activity both with volcanoes and earth quakes i

[HOT] M6.1 earthquake shook Nicaragua's capital Managua, no reported (notable) damage -- OSM at epicenter basically unmapped

Hi all, *In short:* Shallow M6.1 quake 60km North of capital of Nicaragua few hours back. Shook the city, scared people but didn't seem to cause notable damage. No need for "proper" response. Regular mapping for e.g. epicenter areas is welcomed. *In length:* So I just wanted to notify you all of

Re: [HOT] Non-Commercial Licenses

Hi all, It's clear that any data that anyone desires to add to OSM must be available with a license that doesn't restrict commercial use. That's not where the point is here. But what's interesting in the German court ruling -- which seems to me to be for example stricter (to my understanding) tha

Re: [HOT] You are invited to the HOT Annual Meeting

Hi all, Just a reminder that the new attempt to convene to our annual meeting(with quota) is in about 27 minutes and counting

Re: [HOT] Nominations for HOT Chair of the voting members and Board are open

pe: jhelleranta * Mobile: +505-8845-3391 (Nicaragua) * Voice(mail) / SMS / What's app: +1-202-730-9778 * http://about.me/jaakkoh On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 1:17 AM, Jaakko Helleranta.com < jaa...@helleranta.com> wrote: > Dear voting members and the community at large, > > Nomi

Re: [HOT] Nominations for HOT Chair of the voting members and Board are open

We definitely need to make this all work together. Various smaller and larger issues need to be adjusted in the bylaws. Code needs to be referred to in them (IMO). And we can't just tackle one thing at a time. I don't mind which the place is (wiki or Hackpad). Hackpad is more conversational but it'

[HOT] Nominations for HOT Chair of the voting members and Board are open

Dear voting members and the community at large, Nominations for HOT Chair of the voting members and the Board are now open at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Board_Elections_2014. Please see below notes on the role of the Chair and Board (clipped from prior announcement).

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] [OSM-NI] Resume the Night of the living maps

Hi all, The 22nd would be excellent for us in Nicaragua since we have a mapping party that day. Adding the #notlm on top of that would be good both because we're at GMT-6 and because it would give us a nice reason to continue the mapping party to a nice mapathon. It's also nice that it coincides w

Re: [HOT] Fwd: Any good HOT hacks wanted

This might not be an ideal hackathon idea but a task on my list of things I'd like to get done to boost OSM / HOT activities in Nicaragua and that could use some (more) tech help with: I have downloaded the old NGA 50k topo maps for (almost) all of Nicaragua (that is, all that were available from

[HOT] New HOT voting members approved!

Dear all new HOT voting members, FYI all "old" voting members & the HOT community at large, I'm happy to announce that the nominations of and elections for new HOT voting members have resulted in 18 new voting members for HOT! Welcome all! The new voting members list is below. We'll be arranging

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] Resume the Night of the living maps

why not, Pascal Neis could prepare a Statistic > page to follow this ? :) > > > Pierre > > ---------- > *De :* Jaakko Helleranta.com > *À :* Óscar Zorrilla Alonso > *Cc :* talk-ni ; "Talk@OSM" < > t...@openstreetmap.org>; &quo

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] Resume the Night of the living maps

¡Hola Óscar! I'm interested and will definitely join the #notlm! I am passing this forward to my fellow HOTties and Nicaragua mappers to see who else from these (sub)communities would be interested to join. As for the Nicaragua mapping party that was mentioned in the email to talk-es, it seems th

[HOT] Reminder -- Re: HOT nominations/elections 2014: Voting members, Chair, Board

rom Managua, -Jaakko http://osm.org/user/jaakkoh -- jaa...@helleranta.com * Skype: jhelleranta * Mobile: +505-8845-3391 (Nicaragua) * Voice(mail) / SMS / What's app: +1-202-730-9778 * http://about.me/jaakkoh On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:10 PM, Jaakko Helleranta.com < jaa...@helleranta.com&g

[HOT] HOT nominations/elections 2014: Voting members, Chair, Board

Hello All HOTties! It's time again for a round of Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team nominations and elections! This time we'll have three rounds: (i) Nominations (and election) for new voting members, (ii) Election of (voting members') Chair (person) – first time ever! – and finally (iii) Election o

[HOT] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Mapping in Ghana

Forwarding this to hot@ as this may well better reach relevant people. For anyone who wants/tries to find local mappers : the different overlays can help you a lot, namely toggling between the two activity center choices. Cheers, -J -- Sent from my Android device. -- Forwarded message ---

Re: [HOT] In Person Mapathons

Hi all, To the worry of mapping areas: Could it make sense to make use of these kinds of situations to map some vulnerable areas that aren't currently necessarily suffering an active crisis? Nicaragua's Caribbean coast regularly suffers from rainy season damages (including this year) and lot of t

Re: [HOT] what to do by clouds

In these "the road seems to go through this area that is cloudy" I've mapped the estimated bits of roads many times with highway=road (that is meant for roads, tracks, paths that you don't know the classification of). .. It highlights the road even better than just a FIXME tag (albeit has the chall

[HOT] OpenStreetMap & HOT's work in Haiti featured as Editor's Pick in Medium.com today

Hi all. *cross-posting as this intersects OSM in general, HOT and Haiti.* There's a nice article out today on Medium.com (featured as Editor's pick) that tells a condensed long story of OSM in Haiti from the project's beginning in London to quake response to mapping Ta

Re: [HOT] HOTOSM.org Drupal tweaking? - Blog comments & updates feed(s)

ranta -Original Message- From: Mike McCaffrey Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:36:07 To: Mikel Maron Cc: clara; Jaakko Helleranta.com; HOT@OSM (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team) Subject: Re: [HOT] HOTOSM.org Drupal tweaking? - Blog comments & updates feed(s) So the current list of requirements i

Re: [HOT] HOTOSM.org Drupal tweaking? - Blog comments & updates feed(s)

gt; discussion elsewhere. > > And yea, lots of other good ideas. I wonder if we have github repo from > the website to track issues? > > -Mikel > > > * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron > > -- > *From:* Jaakko Helleranta.com

[HOT] HOTOSM.org Drupal tweaking? - Blog comments & updates feed(s)

Hi there, Would anyone in the community be able and available to tweak HOT's Drupal site to at least get comments and RSS feed for the updates + I'd love to see ability to view also updates per "category" (=Related project as they are named), See e.g. this update

[HOT] SoTM US participants?

Hi all, Just wanted to check who from the HOT network are going to SoTM US this weekend. There are a couple of people that have asked about HOT presence there (that are not on this list) and it would be good to put them in contact with HOTties in SF this weekend. Cheers from Haiti - we won't be a

Re: [HOT] MapOSMatic is down

I haven't heard of this / noticed it. Also the project announcements page seems to be down. The OSM wiki page doesn't have any info about this outage nor does the nongnu project page

Re: [HOT] Fwd: [OSM-talk] uMap 0.3.0 released

I second the export/print importance and would love to see a PDF export possibility. .. But I also know that it's a one-man effort (at least until now). So, big thanks to ybon for having pulled all this together already! I assume that as always with FOSS projects: bug reports, suggestions and requ

[HOT] Fwd: [OSM-talk] uMap 0.3.0 released

This might interest some people on these lists (that are not subscribed to talk@ or dev@). I think umap is a much needed missing piece for making it easy to create customized OSM-based "my maps". The instances at openstreetmap.fr and fluv.io are great for those of us (Iike me) who are not able to i

[HOT] Printing OSM banner /maps and/or Geo activities in DC this week?

Hi, I'm visiting DC this (coming) week. I'll be the from Monday evening to Friday afternoon. If someone knows of a place that could print a vinyl banner in 2-3 days I'd be interested to know. Also tips on printing poster maps (and ideally help in creating a few of some areas in Haiti) would be

[HOT] Fw: [OSM-talk] GeoChat plugin for JOSM

Possibly interesting for activations? (Haven't tried it yet.) -Jaakko Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Digicel -- Mobile: +509-37-26 91 54, Skype/GoogleTalk: jhelleranta -Original Message- From: Ilya Zverev Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 12:29:53 To: Talk Subject: [OSM-talk] GeoChat plugin f

Re: [HOT] HDM presets and tagging revised and for review

I'd also keep them both. .. In the context of Haiti (where this dev work was done) you would/should also tag objects as graveyards that are just small burial places. IMO, that is. Cheers, -Jaakko Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Digicel -- Mobile: +509-37-26 91 54, Skype/GoogleTalk: jhellera

[HOT] Fw: [CrisisMappers] Reuters reporting magnitude 8 earthquake in Iran

FYI. Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Digicel -- Mobile: +509-37-26 91 54, Skype/GoogleTalk: jhelleranta -Original Message- From: "Patrick Meier (iRevolution)" Sender: crisismapp...@googlegroups.com Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:00:32 To: crisismappers Reply-To: crisismapp...@googlegroup

[HOT] Fw: [OSM-talk] Imagery Offset Database

This just in. Can be very helpful. Haven't tested it yet myself, though. Cheers, -Jaakko Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Digicel -- Mobile: +509-37-26 91 54, Skype/GoogleTalk: jhelleranta -Original Message- From: Ilya Zverev Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 22:15:26 To: Talk Subject: [OSM-ta

Re: [HOT] Fwd: Re: New Job for Tracing in the Congo

Hi all, Just wanted to add a comment to the highway classification discussion, which I'm happy to see is finally picking up scope of developing countries more generally. I've been mapping in Haiti for nearly 3 years now and have struggled often with all of the higher road classes as practicabi

Re: [HOT] Mali now availalbe in Osmand, any more needed?

Hi all, I haven't used OsmAnd (yet) in HOT work directly but since the release of the 1.0 version I've started using OsmAnd as my main Android map application -- and I _love_ it! I've personally found it smoother to add OSMBugs and tweak the edits via JOSM as that both fits my normal work flow mu

Re: [HOT] Digital Democracy Haiti Hackathon needs HOT support this weekend

Thanks for Schuyler for sending out the email; you beat me to it. We do have some HOTties "here" (in and near PaP). I met with the hackathon team yesterday + attended the intl team's meeting at Solutions (=Noula developer) discussing the possibility of the hackathon collaborating with Noula and

Re: [HOT] Board Elections: another Personal Opinion

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:53 AM, Heather Leson wrote: > things to be nailed down this year: > > 1. Membership policies, election format and growth strategy > +1 Having just become a voting member of HOT I want to share my response to an email I just got congratulating me on the "membership":

Re: [HOT] Central African Republic, use of landcover=bare_earth

HMm. For some reason having highway=track + area=yes doesn't sound right to me. I'll comment on the road tagging separately with a bit better time but to me there are two problems: - area=yes doesn't make the _area_ routable. All of your routes through this area (with the current routing engines,

Re: [HOT] HOT Board of Directors election 2012/13

Thanks Joseph, Pleasure to read your post. Hope to read something also from candidates. .. Please all candidates remember that there are new (and quite possibly older) voting members (too) who might not know you very well / what drives you / would drive you in HOT board work. Explaining a little h

Re: [HOT] HOT Board of Directors election 2012/13

Also: Any board candidate that hasn't written somewhere (this email list or linked to the election wiki page) why they are running and why I should vote for you -- there's about a day for you to do that. "Why are they awsome?

Re: [HOT] mapping for HOT

Hi Norman, There are numerous uses for OSM data in the field / developing countries / humanitarian action. .. While I don't have a complete list for you I'll note the usage that is closest to me: OSM in Haiti is the only good available integrated geodata set. The OSM-based maps are _by far_ the be

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] Who Did It?

Answering to myself after _actually_ reading the announcement email in full... After verifying a few users including myself for areas that these users are > known to have edited even the eternity (1000 days) option doesn't always > show edits. Haven't asked why but that clearly seems to be the cas

[HOT] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Who Did It?

I don't remember that this new tool would have been mentioned here. It is a wonderful addition to the not-so-numerous monitoring tools that helps checking what's going on in your area a lot easier. Note also the undocumented tip on the bottom to filter out edits by a given username (at bottom). I

Re: [HOT] Remote mapping tagging

Hi again, I can't access net to have links/quotes to back up my "claim" but unless I have completely misunderstood things highway=road is meant for situations where the mapper -- most typically tracing area s/he doesn't know, or simply not knowhing how to categorize something -- implies an unre

[HOT] Tagging (roads, squares/pitches) in the dev world -- was: Re: Senegal - Dakar Flooding Activation

[Added tagging@ as this is about tagging in general in the dev world (I feel) and not just humanitarian.. Reply as u see fit.] My simple advise: * Always when tracing roads and in (more or less clear) doubt: use highway=road Surely u can and should also use "FIXME=survey road class" when in dou

Re: [HOT] using HOT resources for a DRR project

The NextView won't be available for your area. It was added as an option to the TM as part of the "Camp Roberts" exercise with the US gov for mapping refugee camps in southern Ethiopia and Eastern Kenya and now (I think) with the American Red Cross project to map two cities in Northern Uganda.

Re: [HOT] [CrisisMappers] Tropical storm (Haiti) & Typhoon (Taiwan)

Good to hear that there's a crowdmap up and running for Isaac / Haiti. (Added HOT@osm to the list.) I am in the country (have been here about two years) and have started to prepare to the storm with fellow-HOTties. As of now we are doing standard HOT preparations (locating equipment, mappers, chec

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] Bulk Uploading GPX files on the OSM website

(Copying to hot + dev because there are certainly many similar cases as I describe in "hot's regions" that would benefit more-than-average-places of more traces & dev as that's where the brains/skills to fix this problem are. Replies to dev only?) I'll just +1 this post, its remarks and suggest

[HOT] Re-mapping Hispanola = verifying that Haiti is ok, fixing Dominican Republic

*En francaise plus bas -- an kreyòl plis desann* --- Dear all, After a the license change bot ran over Hispanola and removed all edits incompatible with the new license there's a good amount of things to do, especially on the DR side to fix things. On the Haiti side we shouldn't have much damage

[HOT] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Task Manager for Remapping Efforts

Didn't see this on HOT list yet. So, FYI, since there are many that don't read the talk list. BIG thanks to Simon for setting this up! (and pgiraud + others here/elsewhere for creating the TM, obviously) -J -- Forwarded message -- From: Simon Poole Date: Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 6:41

Re: [HOT] Licence change redactions occurring in Haiti in the next half hour

Hi Bill / anyone interested to help in last minute fixing of Hispanola, *(adding to talk@osm in case there would happen to be anyone with interest and time to help)* Super glad to hear of you... Unfortunately I've wasted your to-be-contribution by a delayed response (having been swamped with other

Re: [HOT] [Talk-ht] Fw: Licence change redactions occurring in Haiti in the next half hour

Big thanks to Andy for arranging us a little bit more time to license-clean/rescue data. I'll try to keep a continuous eye on the progress of the bot but would be super thankful to anyone who can guestimate the bot's progress enoguh to give 24-48hrs heads up on the bot's arrival to Hispanola (H

[HOT] Urgent advanced revert request for Santo Domingo, DO (with 31024 nodes and 394 ways)

Dear some-advanced-user-of-revert-scripts(?) -- or otherwise an advanced reverter... *Long story short: * I introduced Samuel to fixing OSM data in Haiti and the whole Hispanola before the license change bot runs over us. All things well in Hait

Re: [HOT] pre-earthquake imagery for Haiti

Hej Sabrina, I don't have imagery for you but if you're interested I am happy to share you my thoughts on some of the quality issues related to VTC-based damage assessment quality. This is based on my experience living in Haiti since September 2010, mapping it since right after the quake (as a mo

Re: [HOT] Paraguay floods

Hi all, Didn't check into Harry's links but are the Russian maps he mentions the well-available-but-not-clear-per-copyrights maps? I asked on some OSM list (or IRC) a few weeks ago if someone knew if anyone had solid copyrights for these that would allow tracing / copying from them to OSM .. T

Re: [HOT] Re : New Bing Imagery in Mali and delimitation of riverbanks

Ur not the only one. the topic surely interest others but what I remember of/from the comments from before a number of ppl had doubts on how to do this -- and to what extent OSM is a good/ ideal/ suitable platform for gathering this data. I gotta say that I still have enough other more tangible

Re: [HOT] New Bing Imagery in Mali and delimitation of riverbanks

Better use the flood_prone=yes ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:flood_prone ) than riverbank, no? Flood_prone already renders with OUSM, too: http://ousm.fr/?zoom=16&lat=18.57912&lon=-72.33423&layers=B000F -Jaakko On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Pierre Béland wrote: > New highres Bing

Re: [HOT] Editing grids

We'd still need to figure out the protocol of the grid square border areas. This was something I was pondering about with the Horn of Africa mapping and couldn't come up with even an idea of a satisfying protocol. Have I missed the discussion about this? Or is this perhaps simply left for the valid

Re: [HOT] Incorrect sketching and tagging

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Big Fat Frog wrote: > While mapping "Lombok Island" and also validating others' work I've > noticed a recent tendancy for some to double sketch. I've seen duplicate > tags for Mosques right next to each other, I've seen residential areas > traced on top of each o

Re: [HOT] HOT Digest, Vol 28, Issue 18

Upload early, upload often... ... or even better: always download the data in the area you are submitting data for -- unless you are very shure no one is working on it at the same time. In any case I _always_ advice people to check the areas you have mapped after you have uploaded (update data in

Re: [HOT] Feedbacks about smartphones use for OSM field surveys

Some quick thoughts. This comparison / discussion is very much needed. Thanks, Sev, for initiating. * gps a major problem. Seems to b the concl of others, larger ngos with tech teams, too - I'm gonna b testing ext BT gps solutions in the near future * qwerty is good. I yearn for it always. * sma

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] Changing capitalization (Lima)

(Added HOT to the list as the issue here is probably of interest In the areas where HOT is active.) Andrzej, What was your process / what tools did you use? In general: I've dreamed of solutions to fix not only capitalization errors / fuckups but also various other typing errors / mistakes in n

Re: [HOT] Camp Roberts RELIEF Exercise

The thing you see on the right is also known as the spaghetti map. Cheers, -Jaakko (The term Spaghetti Map was coined by an anthropologist working on evaluating Haiti damage assessment and comparing OSM to Google Maps in the windy-road area of Delmas.) Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Digi

Re: [HOT] HOT Related Events in DC Next Week

The live stream of the World Bank will have a recording posted at some point to http://www.gfdrr.org/gfdrr/node/1188 "Thank you for joining us for the webstream on May 3rd. We will have the recording up soonest." Cheers, -Jaakko On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 7:27 AM, maning sambale wrote: > Any record

Re: [HOT] HOT Strategy Survey

One perspective: Other than being all for Open we are also human beings. This means that we often adjust if not what we say but how we say things depending on the expected audience. In this case I don't think it would be an issue to open up the raw data in retrospect but it's imho in general a g

Re: [HOT] GPS tracker needed

There's been a couple of GPS tracker related threads on the email lists (possibly all(?) at talk@osm?) in the last few months. So, I'd advice to search the talk@osm archives. The recommendations give good analysis of the different good trackers. Your best choice / good choices depend on your ne

Re: [HOT] Re : Mali

Hi there, Would someone know if the World Bank's Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic study from 3-4 years ago has been imported to OSM (or has anyone even looked into it in more detail)? The license is not defined, i.e. not permissive to OSM as is but in case there's anything worthy I can pi

[HOT] Bookmarklets for easier viewing of user contributions or object history (node or way)

Hi all, Sorry for cross-posting but I got so thrilled about creating my first ever bookmarklets as well as my first OSM Diary entries that I can't help but posting this to y'all who might be interested... >From #OSM IRC chat: Since I got good feedback about the bookmarklets I created for Your OS

Re: [HOT] [CrisisMappers] Haiti data

I'm not a GIS person and RS doesn't ring a bell but as an active OSM contributor living in Haiti here are my few cents: * Bing imagery covers all of Archaie coast. The imagery is available for tracing to OSM via all(?) OSM tools, at least JOSM and Potlatch that I use). The imagery is also avail

Re: [HOT] Padang Mapping Task

This is (one of the) reason(s) I think ppl should use source tag (possibly source:geometry) on all mapped objects. .. Makes adjusting easier as one can filter with the tag when traces or other more solid information on imagery accuracy becomes available. Cheers, -Jaakko Ps. Talking of traces,

[HOT] Recommendations for cheap "passive GPS trackers" / vehicle mountable GPS loggers?

Hi there, There was a thread a while ago on GPS loggers but I'd have a slightly modified question on the same field: Could someone recommend essentially GPS logger solutions that would be temporarily installed in vehicles for gathering information for preferrably a week, two or even three for

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] Subscribe to feeds of changes in your area with Changepipe

This is kick-ass great, again. Dead-simple way to create areas to follow. I love it how easy it is to create the polygons -- and get the plain txt coordinates for them. Could this polygon tool pt b integrated w OWL? Can someone give guidance on visualizing the feed content? I'm copying this to

Re: [HOT] [CrisisMappers] odbl non-agreement and humanitarian exceptions.

(Added talk-ht@osm as that might well reach some ppl involved that the other lists don't.) Having bn part of the below-mentioned #OSM IRC discussion (finally using irc after 15 years of avoiding, ayii!) Here's my 2 cents: The OSM Haiti data's v1 odbl complient edit rates for nodes and ways are

Re: [HOT] HOT Chat in 10 minutes!

Missed the chat again ... Because of OSM-related discussions/planning, though. But a Q: Could someone help out in / point me place that would help get the chats (IRC) to my mobile (Android or BB)? Thanks & Cheers from Haiti, -Jaakko Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Digicel -- Mobile: +509-3

Re: [HOT] Hi-Res GeoTiff or other raster map for Haiti

Hi Olivia, The Bing imagery is available for the OSM tools (Potlach2 via browser and JOSM, the Java OSM editor, possibly others). I don't know but am in the understanding that it's (as of now) not available for other platforms. There may also be a possibility to get access to the Bing imagery for

Re: [HOT] Malware on hot.openstreetmap.org

LastPass allows sharing of passwords to individual users' LastPass accounts. I bet there is a range of opinions here about any use of password vaults, perhaps especially proprietary (albeit free) services. My own opinion is that it could b a good solution also for HOT's pwd mgmt. Cheers, -Jaakko

[HOT] Lost Bing Coverage for SW Haiti!?

Hi there, Would anyone here happen to know or, perhaps, be able to find out what has happened to a bunch of Bing coverage for South Western Haiti? I posted about this in detail (with screen captures of the lost coverage) to my blog on Mapping Haiti