[HOT] Join tomorrow the Mapathon over the Boko Haram affected, Diffa Region in Niger

2017-06-16 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, You are welcome to join us this Saturday, June 17 for a mapathon over the Diffa Region in Niger here: http://taches.francophonelibre.org/project/149 ! In Niamey along with members from OSM Communities from Niger, Benin, Burkina Faso and Togo, with the support of Organisation Internationale

Re: [HOT] Fwd: Re: landuse=residential within landuse=residential

2017-03-29 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, landuse=residential shows an urban or housing sprawl and therefore can cross various existing boundaries. boundary=* is related to an official or existing boundary and in the case of a village, it will encompass not only one residential area, but sometimes several and other kinds of landuses

Re: [HOT] Sierra Leone Imagery for non-profit?

2016-12-04 Thread Severin Menard
Hi Thomas, You did not describe what exactly you expect from the imagery to map the mining activities. 10 m resolution + multi-spectral does not sound like mapping structures as we do in OSM. But if high resolution imagery, even if not very recent, is what you target, the Digital Globe Maps API

Re: [HOT] Help HOT give 10 communities the resources to map!

2016-12-01 Thread Severin Menard
Let us figure out what is happening here: HOT US Inc starts a micro-grant program supposedly to support 10 local OSM communities worldwide by raising money. Some of them being already HOT-Sponsored through grants, others being totally autonomous from HOT US Inc. Looks great. Micro-grants are not

[HOT] Hurricane Matthew: involving the local OSM communities

2016-10-25 Thread Severin Menard
On January 12, 2010, a huge Earthquake hit the heart of Haiti, causing tens of thousands of casualties. The OSM community activated for the first time and created within a few days the most detailed map of Port-Au-Prince and its outskirts that has been used by the humanitarian organizations

[HOT] Map4Haiti

2016-10-15 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, New update about our contribution to the OSM Map4Haiti mapping. Job #45 is almost done now and we will start mapping the rural areas within the hills of département of Grande-Anse, over the communes of Abricots, Dame-Marie, Chambellan,

[HOT] Mapping damage in Jérémie from UAV images

2016-10-14 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, Just allowing this important email from Jean-Guilhem to reach the hot list subscribers. Please read below. Severin -- Message transféré -- De : "Jean-Guilhem Cailton" Date : 14 oct. 2016 18:17 Objet : [Talk-ht] Mapping damage in Jérémie from UAV images /

[HOT] Map4Haiti

2016-10-08 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, We have been 40 people mapping over Haiti on OpenStreetMap from l'Amicale in Bouaké, Ivory Coast. On the tasks.hotosm.org TM instance, the HOT ngo has organized mapping over various large territories, going from west to east. The job for detailed, buildings included, mapping has been

Re: [HOT] DigitalGlobe imagery for Matthew

2016-10-08 Thread Severin Menard
Hi Kevin, I cannot get imagery when creating a new TMS in JOSM with either the first or the second link. Is there something specific to be set to get it? Sincerely, Severin On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 4:25 PM, Kevin Bullock wrote: > @Milo - issue should be resolved > >

Re: [HOT] Can we extend the time a tile is locked please?

2016-04-17 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, Quite a recurrent topic for years. I created this ticket two weeks ago, feel free to suggest improvements or to support it. Severin On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 1:12 PM, john whelan wrote: > Bootable JOSM on a USB stick? Smaller tiles? > > I think we have identified a

Re: [HOT] Squared buildings

2016-04-14 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, This would be IMHO an horrible practice, for the complex buildings skilled mappers took the time to map + basically all the round huts. As a common OSM rule is not to tag for the rendering, a new one should be not to distord the data because of the shortcomings of an editing tool. ID should

Re: [HOT] highway tag africa

2016-03-11 Thread Severin Menard
Hi Joost, Looks weird for me as well, and I agree with your comments about the ford tagging. Sincerely, Severin On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 8:38 AM, joost schouppe wrote: > Hi, > > Could someone have a look at the "Other crossing" section of the English > language

Re: [HOT] Bug in HOTOSM export

2015-12-03 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, I also noticed the thematic layers are full of unnecessary (because empty) fields that it would be good to remove. Eg if you check the attribute table for the building shp layer. Sincerely, Severin Le 3 déc. 2015 12:30, "Brian O'Hare" a écrit : > Hi Blake, John, > > I

Re: [HOT] Introducing myself to the community

2015-10-26 Thread Severin Menard
Dear Aditi, Thanks for your interest in improving these tools. You are mentioning this issue affecting the Export tool v2. I cced Brian who developed it, so that both of you can communicate. Sincerely, Severin On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 2:20

Re: [HOT] Beta Release of the Redeveloped Export Tool

2015-09-27 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, I did a full test of the Beta version and added around 10 feedback through issues in GitHub. Question though, the Beta list mentions: *Configuration Files* Removed: - Schema Transform - Language Translation We agreed to keep these functions to an admin level. How this level can be

Re: [HOT] Request for mapping: Colombia - Venezuela border crossings / solicita HOT por crisis en frontera colombo-venezolana

2015-09-19 Thread Severin Menard
Hi Humberto, Can you precise which TM job (over the border crossing) should be prioritized? Severin On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 12:11 AM, hyan...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi Hotties, > > Maps are very urgent at the border crossing, please help us to end > validations to delivery it

Re: [HOT] Getting current satellite data after an emergency

2015-09-18 Thread Severin Menard
Hi Edwin, A few people are testing the use of Sentinel imagery for potentiel use in OSM and I guess they will provide some feedback afterwards. Sincerely, Severin On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 10:14 PM, Edwin Wisse wrote: > Hello, > > In the past i have participated in some

Re: [HOT] Alpha Release of the Redeveloped Export Tool

2015-09-16 Thread Severin Menard
ulness to the majority of > users. I'm sure there's away to include the work you've been doing on > translation and transformation but that does not compromise the usability > and stability of the service. > > kind regards, > > Brian. > > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2

Re: [HOT] Alpha Release of the Redeveloped Export Tool

2015-09-15 Thread Severin Menard
ction :) > So let's talk about this while the tool is still in its testing phase to > come to the best decision. > > Kind regards, > > Mhairi > > > > On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 6:05 PM, Severin Menard <severin.men...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi Mhairi, >

Re: [HOT] Alpha Release of the Redeveloped Export Tool

2015-09-04 Thread Severin Menard
Hi Mhairi, Thanks for your message. Where can we input the translation and the SQL transform files we created for the v.1? Sincerely, Severin On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Mhairi O'Hara wrote: > Hello HOTties, > > The Alpha release of the new Humanitarian

Re: [HOT] Geometry

2015-08-22 Thread Severin Menard
Hi Jacques, Thanks for your participation to this TM job. I restructured and updated the instructions regarding the buildings. Please tell me if it is more clear for you regarding the drawing and the imagery offset. http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/591 Nevertheless, it is not an easy mapping

Re: [HOT] [hotosm-membership] HOT board agenda - Juin 2015

2015-06-26 Thread Severin Menard
Hi all, Is the imagery coord issue raised for a while now among the confidential topics? Would be good to take a decision on this. From the next meeting (meaning in July), it would be good to also have an update regarding the strategic objectives of HOT, as defined last year, each one wih a key

Re: [HOT] Worried about task 1018

2015-05-09 Thread Severin Menard
Hi all, I understand your worry Paul, and have the same experience of unvalidating tasks. I put clear comments for the people to know why. There is no offense I hope, everyone has been a beginner once and learning and improving is part of the motivation with OSM, IMHO. I just suggested this

Re: [HOT] Nepal data validation: overpass script to identify the recent mappers?

2015-05-04 Thread Severin Menard
, Kusala9 kusa...@googlemail.com wrote: I'm new to overpass but there s a nice python wrapper which will make user counts and geometry calculations easier. I can look at this tonight and will report back. Jon 58683-23001#47 On 4 May 2015, at 02:45, Severin Menard severin.men...@gmail.com wrote

[HOT] Nepal data validation: overpass script to identify the recent mappers?

2015-05-03 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, Is there a overpass skilled person to write the script that can identify mappers with limited experience (recent mapper ID or number of contributions less than let us say 5,000) over Nepal, so that we can check their contributions and give advice about how to improve them. Another hero would

Re: [HOT] [activation hotosm] Nepal validation of edits: looking for a pool of Über Validators

2015-05-01 Thread Severin Menard
Activation WG meeting and see everyones thoughts on the enhancements and tools that will be able to assist. Cheers, Mhairi On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 9:45 PM, Severin Menard severin.men...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Following this discussion, the Activation team feels that having an extra step

Re: [HOT] [activation hotosm] Nepal validation of edits: looking for a pool of Über Validators

2015-05-01 Thread Severin Menard
On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Severin Menard severin.men...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Mhairi O'Hara mhairi.oh...@hotosm.org wrote: Hey Severin, I like the idea of creating a 'experienced mapper' status who can validate/invalidate steps, and also promote other

Re: [HOT] TM Job to add GNS place names in Nepal

2015-04-30 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, Forgot to mention I will need the OSM username from the interested people to be able to add them in the job users. Sincerely, Severin On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 1:24 AM, Severin Menard severin.men...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, We just created a TM job http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1019 to add

Re: [HOT] TM Job to add GNS place names in Nepal

2015-04-30 Thread Severin Menard
= 1 mile. I spent last summer folding it. -Steven Wright- Original message From: Severin Menard severin.men...@gmail.com Date:04/30/2015 5:17 AM (GMT-08:00) To: hot@openstreetmap.org Cc: activat...@hotosm.org Subject: Re: [HOT] TM Job to add GNS place names in Nepal Hi

[HOT] Nepal validation of edits: looking for a pool of Über Validators

2015-04-29 Thread Severin Menard
, Apr 28, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Severin Menard severin.men...@gmail.com wrote: NIck and I made this wikipage about it: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Tasking_Manager/Validating_data I should actually update it a bit. In CAR for exemple, everytime a job and task validation is done

[HOT] TM Job to add GNS place names in Nepal

2015-04-29 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, We just created a TM job http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1019 to add the place names from the Public License GNS (GEONet Names Server) http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/namefiles.htm data, in order to facilitate the rescue operation in Nepal. As it is a job that requires a strong OSM mapping

Re: [HOT] What does IDT mean?

2015-04-29 Thread Severin Menard
You mean IDP = Internally Displaced Persons? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internally_displaced_person http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49c3646c146.html On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Charlotte Wolter techl...@techlady.com wrote: Folks, You keep talking about them as if the whole world

Re: [HOT] AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGH!

2015-04-28 Thread Severin Menard
this activation, we should make an evaluation and assure we develop appropriate tools to support such activations. Pierre -- *De :* Severin Menard severin.men...@gmail.com *À :* hot@openstreetmap.org hot@openstreetmap.org *Envoyé le :* Mardi 28 avril 2015 6h04

Re: [HOT] AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGH!

2015-04-28 Thread Severin Menard
Yes On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 12:15 PM, john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote: On the wiki page it refers to *JOSM Style 'HOT-OSM-Validation'* does this refer to the HDM style? Thanks John On 28 April 2015 at 06:44, Severin Menard severin.men...@gmail.com wrote: NIck and I made

Re: [HOT] AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGH!

2015-04-28 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, We could also make slightly evolve the Tasking Manager and create an experienced mapper privileges status who would be required to have access to the validate/unvalidate steps and can promote any other mapper to this status, because she/he knowsher/him and trust her/his skills. The rest of

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

2015-04-26 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, I would suggest to put at least a fixme on the place tag to identify the missing residential areas to map them during next steps. And add also a place tag if there is none, of course. Sincerely, Severin On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Stéphane Henriod s...@henriod.info wrote: Hi Pierre

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

2015-04-12 Thread Severin Menard
Hi Pete, I agree with both Thomas and Michael's usggestions regarding amenity=place_of_worship and amenity=townhall On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 8:32 PM, Michael Heißmeier michae...@digital-filestore.de wrote: Hello Pete, Some important landmarks in Bangassou are the catholic missions (of

Re: [HOT] Borno roads mapping and settlement import. Experienced mappers needed.

2015-04-02 Thread Severin Menard
Hello Rafael, I would suggest you to put the info and links about good examples of achieved tasks in the job instructions. Sincerely, Severin On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Rafael Avila Coya ravilac...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi list: As part of

Re: [HOT] Malawi Flood TM job #847

2015-03-26 Thread Severin Menard
...@ganymede.org wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 19:08:17 +0100 Severin Menard severin.men...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, snip * WARNING:* sometimes the buildings have been created as a node. Please do not delete them as they generally encompass a lot of attributes from the field survey done

[HOT] Weekly Activation Working Group

2015-03-16 Thread Severin Menard
Hi all, So yes, we decided during the last monthly AWG meeting to move ahead and to test having a weekly meeting, moreover because we have much in our plate to prepare the future HOT Activation Summit, especially brainstorming about what we want to document and in which kind of materials. What

Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-15 Thread Severin Menard
Hi Rafael, Are your pictures geotagged or can they be it you have traces? We could set a georss with them. I would document how to do it with Flickr and uMap. Sincerely, Severin On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 8:13 PM, Rafael Avila Coya ravilac...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

Re: [HOT] West African HOT Mapping Tips

2015-03-14 Thread Severin Menard
Hi Blake, This is a great tuto, would it be possible to share the original pics for translations? I have started making short screenvideos for some mapping processes. Are they are mute, they do not require translation (but bandwith). But obviously they cannot give a general overview as a

Re: [HOT] Let's make the most of this

2015-03-12 Thread Severin Menard
Hi Joseph, I did plan to present my views as a candidate for the board and I did it, and I am sure everyone else has been working on this. The extension allows us to strengthen our texts. Publishing early is your own decision and is not a rule and I do not see the benefit to stigmatize other

[HOT] Reminder: Activation Working Group meeting today at 2PM UTC

2015-03-10 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, That means in less than one hour, on the HOT IRC channel. On my way to be on time, talk to you in 50 minutes. Severin ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

Re: [HOT] Malawi Floods - residential areas vs. individual buildings

2015-03-10 Thread Severin Menard
Hi Kretzer, I mapped this task and tried to put all the residential areas. When the buildings are too much spread, I considered them as isolated buildings: http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/907#task/36 I can add the link in the TM Job instructions if you feel it is helpful for the other mappers. I

Re: [HOT] #923 - Mayendit, South Sudan - buildings and roads

2015-03-06 Thread Severin Menard
Hello, On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 12:42 AM, Tom Taylor tom.taylor.s...@gmail.com wrote: The larger round huts are dwellings, the smaller ones are storage. The linear items around the buildings and huts are walls (barrier=wall). In South Sudan, actually it is generally fences and not walls. Check

[HOT] Translating FieldPapers in now possible

2015-03-03 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, The website allows now a multilanguage support. Currently French and Japanese have been already requested, but I guess many other languages would be good to be added. You can request extra languages here: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/fieldpapers/ Sincerely, Severin

Re: [HOT] Translating FieldPapers in now possible

2015-03-03 Thread Severin Menard
. Best, -Kate On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 8:38 AM, Severin Menard severin.men...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, The website allows now a multilanguage support. Currently French and Japanese have been already requested, but I guess many other languages would be good to be added. You can request extra

[HOT] Geotagged pictures (was Malawi Floods)

2015-03-03 Thread Severin Menard
at 5:21 PM, Severin Menard severin.men...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Kretzer kret...@gmx.net wrote: Thanks, interesting post! Welcome! Will the mapping be evaluated by the local volunteers? I guess there is some cleaning needed, and a lot of decisions can't really

Re: [HOT] HOT 847 Malawi - small fields and dams

2015-02-27 Thread Severin Menard
Hello, On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Kretzer kret...@gmx.net wrote: Hello again, and sorry again, if I'm asking in the wrong place (but I don't know any other ...). While trying to do some lunchbreak-mapping, I came across a tile with lots of small fields with dams in between (at least

Re: [HOT] Blog post on the mapping to support Support the Disaster Response in Malawi Flooding (Severin Menard)

2015-02-27 Thread Severin Menard
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Kretzer kret...@gmx.net wrote: Thanks, interesting post! Welcome! Will the mapping be evaluated by the local volunteers? I guess there is some cleaning needed, and a lot of decisions can't really be made from the aerial imagery. Like the classification of

Re: [HOT] Tasking manager - Translators needed

2015-02-27 Thread Severin Menard
Hi Pierre, Working on the French translation, not much to do. On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Pierre GIRAUD pierre.gir...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, We're currently preparing a new release of the tasking manager. In the past weeks, modifications have been made to the code and a bunch of

[HOT] Blog post on the mapping to support Support the Disaster Response in Malawi Flooding

2015-02-26 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, With the Help of Charlotte, Cristiano and Blake, I published on the HOT website this blog post presenting an overview of both the disaster and the OSM mapping to support the response with pictures provided by the HOT interns in Malawi There are two ongoing Tasking Manager jobs, one almost

Re: [HOT] New task of urban mapping in Erbil, Iraq

2015-02-15 Thread Severin Menard
Hi Claire, Maybe it would be good you add a priority area covering the area to be surveyed soon. I would also and the header we frequently add on top (Author, Requesting org, etc.) and would emphasize the fact it will be a base for a survey (IMHO it is a motivation point). Sincerely, Severin

[HOT] 2015 February Activation Working Group Meeting

2015-02-10 Thread Severin Menard
Oops sorry I sent the email to another list! Please read below On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Severin Menard severin.men...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Just a reminder that, as we are the second Tuesday of the month, the Activation Working Group meeting will occur today at 2PM UTC on IRC

Re: [HOT] HOT is now on LinkedIn

2015-02-06 Thread Severin Menard
Dear all, Sorry for getting back late on this thread. Linkedin may be a large social media for professionals, what it has achieved by building its audience by emailing systematically personal contact lists, what makes it one of the most spamming site in the OSM talking lists, from my experience

Re: [HOT] HOT #852 Buildings or not?

2015-01-31 Thread Severin Menard
Hi Martin, Thanks for the feedback: I had copied/pasted the intructions to another jobs and thy did not fit perfectly. It is fixed now. Sincerely, Severin On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 10:08 PM, m902 m902@gmail.com wrote: The instructions for #852 state: Entities to map: residential areas,

[HOT] Activation Working Group meeting

2015-01-12 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, Just a reminder the Activation Working Group meeting will happen tomorrow at 14 UTC, as we will be the 2nd Tuesday of the month, on the #hot IRC channel on OFTC. Click here http://irc.openstreetmap.org/ if you do not have an IRC client, put an nickname and select the #hot channel at the very

Re: [HOT] Project: Improving the HOT tasking manager homepage

2014-12-28 Thread Severin Menard
Thanks for the spreadsheet Nikita, I put my comment, others already did it previously Severin On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Nitika nitikaagarwa...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Everyone, We were working on the wording glossary for the Tasking Manager v1, v2 and the terms used for the same

[HOT] Activation Working Group Meeting today 14 UTC

2014-12-09 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, Just a reminder the Activation Working Group meeting will happen today at 14 UTC, as we are the 2nd Tuesday of the month, on the #hot IRC channel on OFTC Click here http://irc.openstreetmap.org/ if you do not have an IRC client, put an nickname and select the #hot channel at the very bottom

Re: [HOT] Getting Introduced to the OpenStreetMap Community

2014-12-08 Thread Severin Menard
Hi Nitika, I am really happy you are in to make this great, expected, improvement! Looking forward to see the results and available to be part of the working group on this if there is one planned to provide feedback. Sincerely, Severin On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Nitika

Re: [HOT] Bing imagery offset

2014-11-18 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, I just updated the job http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/591 instructions as proposed below. SUmmary: first Bing 2013, then WV2 to complete. Sincerely, Severin On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Severin Menard severin.men...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Yes the adjustments for the latest WV2

Re: [HOT] Bing imagery offset

2014-11-18 Thread Severin Menard
of existing objects? althio On Nov 18, 2014 7:53 PM, Severin Menard severin.men...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I just updated the job http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/591 instructions as proposed below. SUmmary: first Bing 2013, then WV2 to complete. Sincerely, Severin On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 3

[HOT] Activation Working Group Meeting

2014-11-11 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, Just a reminder the Activation Working Group meeting will happen today at 14 UTC, as we are the 2nd Tuesday of the month, on the #hot IRC channel on OFTC Click here http://irc.openstreetmap.org/ if you do not have an IRC client, put an nickname and select the #hot channel at the very bottom

Re: [HOT] Bing imagery offset

2014-11-11 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, Yes the adjustments for the latest WV2 imagery, put in the offset db, were based on the Bing imagery, supposedly (almost no GPS traces over Juba, unfortunately). BUT Bing updated its imagery over Juba; it is now dated June 23, 2013 and the georeferencing is slightly different, making the

Re: [HOT] Task 611 Gaza completed (missing validation)

2014-11-09 Thread Severin Menard
This is really great we achieved this. For having contributed a bit myself, I remember I had to correct the street network a lot on my tiles, so I guess the validation is really mandatory, especially in such a dense urban area, where the imagery is good but not that much for an area where the

Re: [HOT] Newbie support for Missing Maps

2014-11-09 Thread Severin Menard
Hi Ralph, Thanks for the feedback, not sure ising for me as from my own experience setting links with OSM contributors really improve their interest. I would encourage you to do so during the mapping parties you join, and organizers to seek for such mentors. Sincerely Severin Le 8 nov. 2014

Re: [HOT] Activation Working Group meeting: postponing to next week?

2014-10-20 Thread Severin Menard
:* Severin Menard [mailto:severin.men...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 14, 2014 1:46 PM *To:* hot@openstreetmap.org *Subject:* [HOT] Activation Working Group meeting: postponing to next week? Hi, My apologies: solving some personal admin issues, I forgot today was the day for the AWG monthly

Re: [HOT] Activation Working Group meeting: postponing to next week?

2014-10-15 Thread Severin Menard
for http://www.6thswanleyscouts.org.uk/ (treasu...@6thswanleyscouts.org.uk) On 14 Oct 2014 18:48, Severin Menard severin.men...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, My apologies: solving some personal admin issues, I forgot today was the day for the AWG monthly meeting. Is it OK to do it next week

[HOT] Activation Working Group meeting: postponing to next week?

2014-10-14 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, My apologies: solving some personal admin issues, I forgot today was the day for the AWG monthly meeting. Is it OK to do it next week on Tuesday, same hour as usual, to compensate? Sincerely, Severin ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org

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

2014-10-09 Thread Severin Menard
-started On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 3:05 AM, Severin Menard severin.men...@gmail.com wrote: Great! Are the Yahoo layers still available? I had already tried to inform the pluginś developpers that it is not supported for years. Severin On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 12:39 AM, maning sambale

Re: [HOT] Tasking Manager V2 and Project Managers rights

2014-10-08 Thread Severin Menard
Manager copy. An instanciation system like the Ushahidi Crowdmap could be implemented. This way, the list of projects would be more manageable. Pierre -- *De :* Kate Chapman kate.chap...@hotosm.org *À :* Severin Menard severin.men...@gmail.com *Cc :* hot

Re: [HOT] Tasking Manager V2 and Project Managers rights

2014-10-05 Thread Severin Menard
the link to the documentation about this, I am regularly asked about this topic and cannot answer. Sincerely, Severin On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 11:20 PM, Severin Menard severin.men...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Sorry to get back very late on this discussion; I renamed the thread. As actually

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

2014-10-04 Thread Severin Menard
Great! Are the Yahoo layers still available? I had already tried to inform the pluginś developpers that it is not supported for years. Severin On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 12:39 AM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: Not really solving the problem in this thread, but, FYI, humanitarian

Re: [HOT] HOT-Exports job deprecation policy update

2014-09-17 Thread Severin Menard
Hi Drazen, We need to save some jobs eg at national scales whatever their activity, because they represent an historic of OSM data over the time. Case at least in CAR, Malawi and I guess other countries. I think jobs should be tagged, and one tag would identify such jobs. I add this in the agenda

Re: [HOT] Activation Working Group: draft of the Terms of Reference (TORs) to be reviewed

2014-09-08 Thread Severin Menard
://hackpad.com/HOT-AWG-Activation-Working-Group-Terms-of-reference-8EFvmXXzU68 Sincerely, Severin On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Severin Menard severin.men...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, During the last AWG on IRC, we finalized a first draft for the AWG Terms of Reference. Please find the document

[HOT] URGENT: HOT Exports is down or full

2014-09-05 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, I have been alerted about the fact HOT Exports does not allow to create new jobs anymore. Eg with http://export.hotosm.org/en/jobs/8784 State Download Created At Created Byerror in osm2pgsql 2014-09-04 21:30 From the past, this happens when the server storage is full. Can a tech with

[HOT] HOT Tasking Manager: missing a frontpage by projects

2014-09-04 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, The current front page of the Tasking Manager v2 looks like a lot to the v1, with a search bar and an automatic ranking. The default one is no more the creation date, but the priority . Actually, this way of presenting the projects is quite messy and make invisible everything that is no high

[HOT] Activation Working Group: minutes from August meeting

2014-08-31 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, Please find there the minutes for the last AWG meeting: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Working_groups/Activation/meeting_2014-08-12 The action points will be sent through separate threads. As stated in the wikipage, the next meeting will occur on September 9th,

[HOT] Activation Working Group: draft of the Terms of Reference (TORs) to be reviewed

2014-08-31 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, During the last AWG on IRC, we finalized a first draft for the AWG Terms of Reference. Please find the document here for comments and suggestions: https://hackpad.com/HOT-AWG-Activation-Working-Group-Terms-of-reference-8EFvmXXzU68 If everyone agrees (or rather if anyone disagrees), we will

[HOT] Activation WG: crisis monitoring team?

2014-08-31 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, I suggested we could try to set a volunteer team that would monitor the crisis information channels. IMHO this would have two folds: - monitor the crisis where there is a HOT Activation, in order to alleviate the burden of the main Activators, eg Pierre and Andrew for Ebola Crisis. There may

[HOT] Activation WG: setting a Trello board

2014-08-31 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, We have been talking for a long time about testing Trello; actually I use it ofr internal coordination for the CAR Activation for a couple of months with Amadou, but I created one Trello board for the AWG action points so that people interested can pick up a task and we can track what we do

[HOT] HOT Exports: time gap with the OSM Database

2014-08-31 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, Is there a way to know the time gap between HOT Exports and the OSM database? When the service had been created in 2012, it was a few minutes, if I am not wrong. Seems this is more than that now, what could be a blocker for potential partners. Sincerely, Severin

[HOT] Tasking Manager V2 and Project Managers rights

2014-08-27 Thread Severin Menard
On Thursday, July 17, 2014 7:18 AM, Severin Menard severin.men...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, What is the new governance regarding Job creation rights? Seems the former admins - now project managers cannot extend the rights of job creations to peers they find skilled enough to make them. Were

Re: [HOT] Hot Job 591 Cholera in Juba - Bing imagery updated, new offset

2014-08-25 Thread Severin Menard
On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 8:27 PM, David Schmitt da...@black.co.at wrote: Hi Severin, folks, On 2014-08-24 00:09, Severin Menard wrote: Indeed the Bing imagery has been updated and is now from June 2013, what is older than the WorldView2 imagery from http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/591

Re: [HOT] Kaduna State eHealth Africa Roads import

2014-08-23 Thread Severin Menard
Hi Rafa, Thanks for facilitating this. DId you find the good way to join and tag the roads without having to do everything manually (like a script or a set of actions to get a result that needs to be checked after)? Sincerely, Severin On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Rafael Avila Coya

[HOT] TYP file to improve the HOT exports gmapsupp files

2014-08-21 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, We use systematically up-to-date gmappsupp files in the 10 Garmin eTrex 20 we have for the project in Malawi. As garmin.openstreetmap.nl is not updated on a daily basis, we rely on the garmin files provided by HOT Exports, but unfortunately it seems the maps it produces are non routable and

[HOT] Activation Working Group Monthly meeting on Tuesday, August 12, 2PM UTC

2014-08-09 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, A reminder about the next AWG meeting, that occurs every second Tuesday each month, 2 PM UTC. Please find here the report of the last meeting (that I would have published before, my apologies):

[HOT] TM job for Chikhwawa district in Malawi - mapping over imagery to prepare field mapping

2014-08-06 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, As announced in my last email about the Malawi project, I created a TM job http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/615 to start mapping the most flood prone areas in Lower Shire valley, starting by the Chikhwawa district. The local trainees from Malawi gov Departments, Academia and WFP have started

Re: [HOT] SDS Preparation/Project-Setup

2014-08-04 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, There is also a LearnOsm chapter about setting a SDS server. Sincerely, Severin On 4 Aug 2014 14:05, Emir Hartato emir.hart...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Sorry for being inactive as it was Eid holiday season here. *- if somebody delete a hospital in OSM for exemple; I will lose the link

[HOT] OSM Community mapping in flood prone areas in Malawi

2014-08-03 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, I published yesterday a blog post about the HOT project in Malawi in which Maning, Emir and I will be involved: http://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates/2014-08-02_project_in_malawi_starts_in_the_field We will be able to replicate and emphasize what happened a few months ago in Lubumbashi, DRC

Re: [HOT] Boosting LearnOSM

2014-07-30 Thread Severin Menard
document I am doing from the current short wikipage will not be a potential new chapter of LearnOSM, as the recent quality control pages. Pity we would need to redo all this from scratch. -Kate On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 1:19 AM, Severin Menard severin.men...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am happy we

[HOT] HOT In Person Board Meeting - Day 3 summary

2014-07-27 Thread Severin Menard
HOT In Person Board Meeting - Day 3 summary In our last day of face-to-face board discussions we covered a final set of topics and brought things to a close while aiming to maintain our momentum. Agenda 1 HOT projects definition 2 Working Groups 3 Community engagement 4 Strategy plan 5 Conflict

Re: [HOT] Hot Job #591 South Sudan Crisis, Cholera outbreak: Imagery link not finished

2014-07-23 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, Sorry I was travelling when the message has been sent and tried to fix the mistake in the link but it seems TM v2 demands a certain format of html links, I put a ticket on GitHub and likely Pierre Giraud fixed the link (on a smartphone right now with a limited connection). Sincerely,

Re: [HOT] Boosting LearnOSM

2014-07-20 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, I am happy we switch to Transifex, the GitHub editor was a real pain and a real blocker for non GitHub experienced people (like me). Regarding Nick's idea of linking LearnOSM and the OSM wiki for eg https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Tasking_Manager, is it possible? It would be great,

[HOT] Advice/feedbacks on MIFI devices

2014-07-18 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, I would need feedback from people having experienced MIFI devices (without plans) to be used in a tropical African country (actually Malawi). The BRCK device is now available, but cannot be delivered on time (end of next week). Basically it needs to: - be compatible with the 3G African

Re: [HOT] Tasking Manager V2 launch

2014-07-17 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, What is the new governance regarding Job creation rights? Seems the former admins - now project managers cannot extend the rights of job creations to peers they find skilled enough to make them. Were there issues in the past with this cooptation system? Sincerely, Severin On Thu, Jul 17,

Re: [HOT] Requesting a Task for mapping forest tracks in Portugal

2014-07-14 Thread Severin Menard
Hi Marcos, Please keep updating us about your project and its outcomes and ask if you need any technical help. I just read the thread in which you presented your project in talk-pt and seems some contributors are afraid the area is maybe too large. Did you identify who will be the beneficiaries

Re: [HOT] eHealth Africa places import

2014-07-11 Thread Severin Menard
:00 PM, Rafael Avila Coya ravilac...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Séverin: Here you are: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Nigeria#eHealth_Africa_Foundation_database_imports ;) Cheers, Rafael. On 10/07/14 15:57, Severin Menard wrote

Re: [HOT] Let us finish the old featured job in the Tasking Manager!

2014-07-11 Thread Severin Menard
the contents of this email. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the email and any attachments. === On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 11:38 PM, Severin Menard

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