Re: [HOT] Analysis of when mappers joined OSM

On 8/24/2017 7:30 AM, Bryan Housel wrote: Hi Janet, The OSM API can give details about when a user created their account, and how many changesets they have contributed. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.6#Details_of_a_user While the API will tell you how many changesets a user is up

Re: [HOT] HOT in Research

On 3/6/2017 3:25 PM, Emir Hartato wrote: Hi everyone, You may wondering why I'm missing in HOT's action since couple years ago - that's because I was busy working on my research for my masters. Now I'm pleased to announce that my research titled *Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) for

Re: [HOT] note to Project Managers: Highway=road

On 2/22/2017 2:42 PM, john whelan wrote: "If you are unsure of what tag to assign to a road, use the provisional highway=road tag." Yes but many routing systems ignore this these. When we mapped with GPS traces we used highway=road because you didn't know if it was a motorway or a footway

Re: [HOT] Fwd: [OpenStreetMap] Alternative imagery project 2102

On 11/7/2016 6:17 AM, Chad Blevins wrote: Hi everyone, Thanks for the note, I created task 2102 and also provided the additional imagery service. Unfortunately certain areas of the custom image service are offset from Bing and existing OSM data. For this reason I purposely didn't load the

Re: [HOT] HOT Statistics

On 2016-10-01 03:56 PM, Mike Thompson wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 7:26 PM, john whelan > wrote: You might like to think in terms of data quality. Number of mappers is interesting I've seen 20 new maperthon mappers not

Re: [HOT] Highway=residential in Africa

On 6/15/2016 3:22 AM, Michael wrote: Hi, Here the word 'unclassified' is pretty misleading as well. For some reason 'highway=unclassified' does not mean that the road is not classified at all but does not have any special classification. In other words it is something like "other road" or

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Reporting Attribution Issues on Mapbox maps

On 6/10/2016 3:03 PM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: But I'm a little concerned about non-MB hosted maps. If not this URL, where can we report attribution issues related to non-hosted Mapbox maps and can you link to that other place we can report attribution issues related to that other kind of

Re: [HOT] OSM Fiji linked with U-Report for TC Winston response

On 5/12/2016 10:23 AM, john whelan wrote: The Canadian Treasury Board releases Federal Government open data under a license that is OSM compatible. Sometimes its easier to get governments to open their data under the same license as another Government than to make an exception for OSM as very

Re: [HOT] Squared buildings

On 4/25/2016 12:55 PM, Cascafico Giovanni wrote: ... And, why not, stimulate ID programmers to add square feature button :-) It's been stated a few times but since there's still confusion: iD has a button to square features. It has had this feature since before it was released. We need to

Re: [HOT] Changes not being saved

On 4/25/2016 6:09 AM, john whelan wrote: I think with iD though you make changes in a web interface and those are stored on a central server(s). When you "save" then the server attempts to add them to the OSM database and says thank you even though it has not at that time had a message back

Re: [HOT] Squared buildings

On 4/14/2016 1:16 PM, Mike Thompson wrote: Those are both things that I already tell new mappers. But they type 's' and think they have made a square building. We can talk about how that they should notice that nothing changed, but no one has ever asked me "why doesn't the 's' key work?"

Re: [HOT] Mapping clouds and low resolution imagery

On 4/10/2016 3:13 PM, John Gordon wrote: I am developing a project to incorporate HOT/OSM data into an application to plan for and manage food security emergencies in developing countries. The HOT/OSM data is converted into a shapefile using the HOT export tool ( http://export.hotosm.org/en/ )

Re: [HOT] Waterway - Determining Flow Direction

On 4/5/2016 11:49 AM, Michael Heißmeier wrote: Hi Mike, there is another option which I occasionally use. Depending on the area in question you might find more-or-less outdated US military maps (JOG/AMS etc.) which have the advantage that there is no copyright associated with them. They tend

Re: [HOT] Mapathons at Public Libraries

On 3/17/2016 10:17 AM, Mike Thompson wrote: 1) Should they promote the event to "families" (e.g. young people accompanied by parents). What should be the minimum age a) for young people mapping independent of a parent, b) for young people mapping with a parent? As a general rule, you should

Re: [HOT] Difficulty in communicating with iD users

On 2016-03-07 4:53 AM, Mikel Maron wrote: People, get a grip. There are a lot of cool ideas that have risen and re-risen in this thread. Custom iD presets for HOT tasks, tighter coordination between training guides and software release cycles, better management of tags across OSM. HOT

Re: [HOT] Fwd: Nominate a student or a professional you know for Women in Open Source Award - Short deadline

On 11/28/2015 10:04 AM, Blake Girardot wrote: Hi all, Just wanted to forward this. It comes from the Outreachy program director, but does not really have anything to do with Outreachy. Any woman in OSS is eligible. Just to note, nominations are now closed. I looked at nominating someone,

Re: [HOT] Task 1238 Canaan Important Deletion of existing objects

On 11/20/2015 11:30 AM, Rafael Avila Coya wrote: I've checked the edits by that user, and he made lots of changesets (maybe around hundred), so I see a potencial reversion very troublesome and time consuming. There are tools specifically for reverting all changesets made by a user between a

Re: [HOT] GeoWeek Remote Support

On 11/13/2015 2:17 PM, Russell Deffner wrote: Greetings HOT community, As we gear-up for the big week ahead, we thought we could do something to help all the GeoWeek event organizers; and that is to have some people on-hand to answer questions and generally give feedback/support on our IRC

Re: [HOT] Quick question on village mapping

On 10/28/2015 2:53 AM, Pete Masters wrote: Hi all, If you are adding field data to an existing shape (landuse=residential), would you tag the shape as place=village / name=whatever or would you add a node and tag the node. I've generally done the latter, but am seeing quite a few villages

Re: [HOT] DigitalGlobe imagery for Hurricane Patricia

On 10/23/2015 9:33 PM, Kevin Bullock wrote: Dear HOT, a few months ago, we launched a Maps API to simplify access to our imagery (in partnership with Mapbox). In response to Hurricane Patricia, we are opening access to pre-event Mexico imagery. We have built 50cm countrywide mosaics for the

Re: [HOT] leisure=common

On 8/6/2015 1:37 PM, Blake Girardot wrote: Those areas are large, short grass or ground/grass areas in villages or settlements, often with paths walked across them. They are typically common areas for the settlement. It should not be used on areas that are just a large flat areas out in the

Re: [HOT] paths, tracks and unclassified in West Africa

On 7/16/2015 8:17 AM, Springfield Harrison wrote: Every feature should be tagged as Validated=yes/no. As a crowd-sourced project OSM doesn't have a concept of validated or official data. This is different than validation in the tasking manager, which is external, and is more about reviewing

Re: [HOT] paths, tracks and unclassified in West Africa

On 7/15/2015 5:40 AM, Ralf Stephan wrote: So, essentially, only locals have full knowledge and every tag by nonlocals is preliminary? It's the importance of the road that determines its classification, and a local will have a better idea of the classification than someone remote. The local

Re: [HOT] Fwd: [info-hotosm] Tiles download request

On 7/9/2015 8:50 AM, Tyler Radford wrote: We would be most grateful if you could provide us with a zip/rar of the complete map layer such that we can extract the various tiles needed. Please let me know if this is possible or if there is an existing location where the entire set can be

Re: [HOT] Post-disaster imagery for Vanuatu

On 3/17/2015 12:58 PM, Blake Girardot wrote: Hi Denis, I also think the offset varies a little bit from place to place so you might need to adjust it more than once. I think it is from a differing DEM used for the different imagery products. As Bing and Mapbox have different imagery and

Re: [HOT] Post-disaster imagery for Vanuatu

On 3/17/2015 5:20 PM, Blake Girardot wrote: Hi all, One additional note, please do not remove any buildings based on this updated imagery. At the moment one major data need is pre-event building footprints and residential areas. There is nothing wrong with removing a building which is no

Re: [HOT] A company page for HOT on Linkedin, is it normal ?

On 2/8/2015 3:32 PM, Augustin Doury wrote: By creating this page, the Communication Working Group must use a different name of « Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team ». By using this inappropriate designation, the HOT US Inc organization keeps up the monopolization of public/private positions

Re: [HOT] Questions regarding Missing Maps Mapping Party in the Netherlands

On 2/3/2015 11:59 PM, Willy Bakker wrote: Firstly, which editor would you recommend for beginners? In Berlin during the Open Knowledge Festival I attended a HOT workshop where the iD editor was used; at the mapping party in Antwerp in december they used JOSM. Which one is the best for

Re: [HOT] Request for help/guidance on a project to test diarrheal disease interventions in Kendua Sub-District, Bangladesh.

On 1/30/2015 1:36 PM, Stacey Maples wrote: Finally, we may be able to obtain gps traces from food delivery drivers to upload to OSM. It would be great to have a training for them if there are mappers in the area, or in Dhaka who would be willing to travel. Wondering who to contact about the

Re: [HOT] Humanitarian Mapping for a class

On 1/22/2015 10:53 AM, Mueller, Thomas wrote: Obviously this should not be a difficult for them, but I am hoping it will accomplish several objectives including: 1)Help map the area 2)Help the students understand how they can “donate” their time to help (within a topic in their field)

Re: [HOT] Gaza stip, hot export in shape

On 9/14/2014 11:38 PM, Fred Moine wrote: I guess that there needs to be a discussion about what to do, as this seems to be a problem only for arcgis. I don't know what were the reasons to reproject the in the first place, at the time hot-export service was designed. 3857 is the standard

Re: [HOT] OSM humanitarian layer as an ArcGIS basemap?

On 9/10/2014 8:25 AM, Claire Halleux wrote: In case anyone of you would be using OSM basemap in ArcGIS 10 and would know some details about it... people involved in mapping DRC Ebola emergency are currently looking for those informations: - is it possible to change the standard OSM layer to

Re: [HOT] GNS name merging discussion thread

On 8/14/2014 3:12 PM, Pierre Béland wrote: As a general rule, we outline residential landuse areas using the tag landuse=residential. There might be many for one village. Sure - the only problem is when you can't be reasonably certain that what you're tracing is only residential. In those

Re: [HOT] 2014 Gaza Strip Follow up

On 8/10/2014 12:31 AM, Frederic Moine wrote: Since monday 4th of august we have done 12 878 buildings Many of these buildings are undoubtedly damaged or destroyed (after all, that's why there's the task). Are there any plans to get more updated imagery or another means of collecting data so

Re: [HOT] Admin level 2 for CAR and Malawi

GADM is under a non-commercial license and thus not open data, or compatible with OpenStreetMap. On 2014-07-03 9:34 PM, Nadeem Sardar wrote: here you can look at following sources. Global Administrative Areas | Boundaries without limits http://www.gadm.org/ image http://www.gadm.org/

Re: [HOT] *** Emergency Request *** Guinea Conakry- Gueckedou, Macenta, Kissidougou

-Original Message- From: Jean-Guilhem Cailton [mailto:j...@arkemie.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 2:05 PM To: hot@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [HOT] *** Emergency Request *** Guinea Conakry- Gueckedou, Macenta, Kissidougou Hi, Other versions of the Landsat-8 image taken

Re: [HOT] Consensus call Re: Import UNICEF data in Central African Republic, act II

To: 'Paul Norman' Cc: HOT Openstreetmap Subject: Fwd: Consensus call Re: Import UNICEF data in Central African Republic, act II I believe this call has succeeded. Would you please unlock TomT5454_imports and, I guess ed_vac so we can clean up what we already added and carry

Re: [HOT] Consensus call Re: Import UNICEF data in Central African Republic, act II

, act II -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom meant edvac and edvac_import (both me) Cheers, Rafael. On 28/01/14 00:32, Paul Norman wrote: TomT5454_imports has never been blocked - nor would any blocks last longer than 96 hours without special intervention from admins

Re: [HOT] Consensus call Re: Import UNICEF data in Central African Republic, act II

administrative action is required. Tom Taylor On 27/01/2014 9:58 PM, Paul Norman wrote: In any case, no action is needed, as there are no blocks. -Original Message- From: Rafael Avila Coya [mailto:ravilac...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 27, 2014 4:48 PM To: hot

Re: [HOT] [Imports] CAR Activation; experienced mappers to finish the import of UNICEF data?

From: Severin MENARD [mailto:severin.men...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 3:22 AM To: impo...@openstreetmap.org; hot@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Imports] CAR Activation; experienced mappers to finish the import of UNICEF data? Paul, I took you only 24 hours in

Re: [HOT] CAR Activation; experienced mappers to finish the import of UNICEF data?

From: Severin MENARD [mailto:severin.men...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2013 3:22 PM To: Paul Norman Subject: Re: [HOT] CAR Activation; experienced mappers to finish the import of UNICEF data? Hi Paul, 1. Health Facilities The fixme for longitude,latitude was proposed

Re: [HOT] CAR Activation; experienced mappers to finish the import of UNICEF data?

From: Severin MENARD [mailto:severin.men...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, December 23, 2013 6:52 AM Subject: [HOT] CAR Activation; experienced mappers to finish the import of UNICEF data? Hi Paul, http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2590517305 I had a look at this and there are a number of

Re: [HOT] CAR Activation; experienced mappers to finish the import of UNICEF data?

From: Rafael Avila Coya [mailto:ravilac...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: [HOT] CAR Activation; experienced mappers to finish the import of UNICEF data? Hi again: I am just importing the data for a tile as a test (the one that has Berbérati town in the SE corner ( http://osm.org/go/wJ4HSfE- )).

Re: [HOT] The status of iD in HOT contexts/projects

From: Kate Chapman [mailto:k...@maploser.com] Tom MacWright Subject: Re: [HOT] The status of iD in HOT contexts/projects Hi All, We didn't run into any major problems in Vietnam, though we were using the Tasking Manager and mostly kept people from editing in the same area. The team

Re: [HOT] The status of iD in HOT contexts/projects

From: Kate Chapman [mailto:k...@maploser.com] Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2013 3:35 AM Simon Johnson; Tom MacWright Subject: Re: [HOT] The status of iD in HOT contexts/projects Hi Robert/All, I wanted to mention we'll be using iD as well for the mapping begin this week in Haiphong. It

Re: [HOT] The status of iD in HOT contexts/projects

One workaround is to use custom imagery with a url of about:blank or a blank image. From: John Firebaugh [mailto:john.fireba...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 30, 2013 10:41 AM To: Kathleen Danielson Cc: Banick, Robert; Paul Norman; Kate Chapman; william skora; hot@openstreetmap.org

Re: [HOT] next HOT tech chat

From: Yantisa Akhadi [mailto:yant...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 15, 2013 12:59 AM Subject: Re: [HOT] next HOT tech chat A very interesting topic, unfortunately 17.00 UTC equal 02.00 AM in Indonesia. Here in Indonesia we're thinking of developing some kind of cache server, since

Re: [HOT] [Talk-us] Black Forest Fire Update

[mailto:tom.taylor.s...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 8:56 AM To: Russell Deffner Cc: 'Murry McEntire'; 'Paul Norman'; 'hot'; 'OSM US Talk' Subject: Re: [HOT] [Talk-us] Black Forest Fire Update natural=wood is the obvious way to me. It's what I use here in Ottawa, Canada. On 14/06

Re: [HOT] Mapa Inundaciones La Plata

it to the JOSM, P2 and iD lists tomorrow. Technical details: I did this as JPEG tiles for speed reasons. I also made use of the Terralook shapefiles for clipping, which wasn’t entirely successful because there are some small black gaps. From: Paul Norman [mailto:penor...@mac.com] Sent

Re: [HOT] Advice tracing footprints with poor imagery in Kathmandu, Nepal

From: maning sambale [mailto:emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: [HOT] Advice tracing footprints with poor imagery in Kathmandu, Nepal There are opensource tools that can extract features from hires imagery, an example is GRASS, see this sample process (ignore the subjectline :))