[HOT] DRAFT- HOT Nepal Response Community Survey

2015-05-20 Thread laura brittain
This looks great. I wonder if you'd want to add any questions about difficulties people may have had with the process or software. For instance JOSM questions. That was one reason I thought about not continuing to map at first and it's one of the areas I want to give feedback about. It could be a

[HOT] Accidentally marked square as "Done"

2015-05-17 Thread laura brittain
Could some kind person please go into task 1047 and find tile #275 and mark it not done? My finger slipped. It is not done. Thank you so much! Laura ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

[HOT] How to fully cover a grid square

2015-05-12 Thread laura brittain
Michael, I've just been wishing for a grid, too. One that can be turned on and off so it's not in the way. Or the alphabet on the left, numbers on the bottom to sort of grid it like a street map. I do two things: look along geographical areas that already have buildings (that's my focus) The ot

[HOT] Suggestion to support Newbie development via Validated work

2015-05-10 Thread laura brittain
Good morning from California! It would be great to have a validated tile that semi-newbs could examine to learn from. Is there a way to show us one that's locked down and unchangeable? Maybe someday it will be possible to create a dummy. (How can we progress to where we can help with other parts

[HOT] Worried about task 1018

2015-05-09 Thread laura brittain
Ideas regarding using newbs, Please embed instructions (and a link to Google translate or another) in Task manager. Please put important instructions in Bold Capital Letters in Task manager. Info on unlocking a tile isn't visible when you are locked in a tile and it's hard to realize you have to

[HOT] Feedback

2015-05-07 Thread laura brittain
I agree with Kadja. This seems to be useful work even for novice mappers. If it isn't I'm sure we'll be told how to help better. The basic guides and video are very good. Adding simple, disaster-specific instructions will help a lot, but I'm sure that will come. It helped when task manager gave

Re: [HOT] Should Newbies (Me) keep mapping houses and "easy" features?

2015-05-05 Thread laura brittain
Thank you Steve, And another question for anyone: Does anyone know how to make the JOSM building tools plug-in behave? It works for awhile and then automatically starts making rectangles with only two clicks. And not in the right directions. I can't find any trouble shooting online for this plug i

[HOT] Should Newbies (Me) keep mapping houses and "easy" features?

2015-05-04 Thread laura brittain
Since a lot of work now needs to be done by more experienced mappers, is it still helpful for newbies like me to trace houses and other "easy" features? Does seeing every building in an area (especially isolated buildings) help with rescue and aid? A lot of these buildings seem really hard to ge

[HOT] Question about helping as newcomer

2015-05-01 Thread laura brittain
Hi, I'm limiting my newbie mapping in Nepal tasks to things that seem simple. But I don't want to confuse things with bad data. After reading comments in the hotlist, I'm sticking to white squares. Is it advisable to go ahead with: Finding and marking individual buildings Identifying bridges Mark