[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

[HOT] Feedback

2015-05-07 Thread Katja Ulbert
Hi all, I am convinced my mapping is useful, even as a beginner. It took some time to go through the whole LearnOsm Guide, but it was worth it. Questions that come up now can be answered via IRC or mailing list. Striving for perfection in an imperfect situation doesn´t make sense to me. This

Re: [HOT] Feedback

2015-05-07 Thread Milo van der Linden
Well spoken! I am glad tot hear all of us are doing a job that satisfies a need. Milo On May 7, 2015 1:17 PM, "Katja Ulbert" wrote: > Hi all, > > I am convinced my mapping is useful, even as a beginner. It took some time > to go through the whole LearnOsm Guide, but it was worth it. Questions t

Re: [HOT] Feedback

2015-05-07 Thread Pierre Béland
| | changesets | 117 300 | 9 775 | | objects | 9 632 000 | 802 667 | https://twitter.com/pierzen/status/596372811687567360 regard   Pierre De : laura brittain À : "hot@openstreetmap.org" Envoyé le : Jeudi 7 mai 2015 13h35 Objet : [HOT] Feedback I agree with Kadja. Thi

Re: [HOT] Feedback

2015-05-10 Thread Heather Leson
Thanks so much! Everyone, keep the feedback coming. Together we can build on these learnings. Stay tuned for Working Group meetings to transfer the knowledge into actions Heather Heather Leson heatherle...@gmail.com Twitter: HeatherLeson Blog: textontechs.com On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 2:28 PM, Mi

[HOT] feedback on new website

2012-01-27 Thread Ed Freyfogle
Hi I love the new website. Congrats to all involved. Sorry for sending to the whole list but it was unclear to me who to direct website specific questions to. One thing I think is missing though (apologies if I just couldn't find it). Can someone please add a link to the task manager where relev

[HOT] Feedback about the Tasking Manager

2017-02-25 Thread Florian Niel
Hi, In December 2016 I found HOT by accident and started contributing. Now I have seen some different types of projects and want to give feedback about the tasking manager. 1) Information for new users: I think it is really good. The system with the description and the instrucions first is r

[HOT] Feedback "Highway Tag Africa" wikipage

2014-07-08 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
Good Morning, after some discussion on IRC and feedback about my mapping at #568 (thanks, Tallguy), here some points regarding the "Highway Tag Africa" [1] wikipage. I did _not_ put this in the Talk-tab of the wikipage because I suspect that most of the people looking there are looking for insight

Re: [HOT] feedback on new website

2012-02-06 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi Ed, Thanks for the feedback. It has been added. Best, -Kate On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Ed Freyfogle wrote: > Hi > > I love the new website. Congrats to all involved. > > Sorry for sending to the whole list but it was unclear to me who to > direct website specific questions to. > > On

[HOT] Feedback on I think mapswipe

2017-12-16 Thread john whelan
I'm looking at project 3890 which apparently was prepossessed by mapswipe. I think the mapswipe overlay has now been removed but what I have noticed is a number of highways in a straight line are not connected up. You get a stretch of highway then nothing other than a faint mark on the imagery fo

[HOT] Feedback on Bidibidi camp mapping (MSF)

2016-12-16 Thread Martin Noblecourt
Dear community members, We know that it's always appreciated when NGOs provide feedback on how the OSM data is used, you'll find a short piece of news on our recent MSF activation to map the Bidibidi camp in Uganda: http://cartong.org/news/mapping-bidibidi-camp-uganda-msf The data has just a

Re: [HOT] Feedback about the Tasking Manager

2017-02-25 Thread Ralf Stephan
Very good. I support these suggestions. Regards, On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 9:43 AM Florian Niel wrote: > Hi, > > In December 2016 I found HOT by accident and started contributing. Now I > have seen some different types of projects and want to give feedback > about the tasking manager. > > 1) Info

Re: [HOT] Feedback about the Tasking Manager

2017-02-25 Thread Donal Hunt
+1 on the validation comments. I'd be more than happy to validate but didn't know how to get started (and I'm conscious that not being a calibrated validator would cause much pain for the organisations relying on the data). Would be great if there was a way for bootstrapping validators so they can

Re: [HOT] Feedback about the Tasking Manager

2017-02-25 Thread Arne Kimmig
Hi Florian and all, Thanks a lot Florian, I was also thinking about giving a similar feedback for the Aweil project. I support Florian's suggestions and below I added some more detailed comments about my observations during mapping. I also think that TM is a great tool and in connection with

Re: [HOT] Feedback about the Tasking Manager

2017-02-25 Thread Michelle Schmitz
Adding onto Arne's comments - I've seen these errors occur on various projects, too. Would it be possible to add extra information (especially pictures!) to the wiki page for validation, so people are aware of how these kinds of errors look graphically - and (maybe) how they can be suggested to be

Re: [HOT] Feedback about the Tasking Manager

2017-02-25 Thread john whelan
>-buildings are marked as points and not traced This is acceptable to OpenStreetMap. Adding additional information is easier to a node with things such as osmand etc. > -residential areas are drawn for less than three buildings Although many projects have this in the instructions I'm not sure t

Re: [HOT] Feedback about the Tasking Manager

2017-03-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
> > 2) Questions about a project > I wish there was a comment section for every project where anyone can ask > general questions. For example if I realize that same things are being > mapped differently, I coud ask how it should be done and everybody would > see the answer. Right now I can just sen

Re: [HOT] Feedback on I think mapswipe

2017-12-16 Thread Pat Tressel
> I think the mapswipe overlay has now been removed but what I have noticed > is a number of highways in a straight line are not connected up. You get a > stretch of highway then nothing other than a faint mark on the imagery > followed by another stretch of highway. > What that pattern immediate

Re: [HOT] Feedback on I think mapswipe

2017-12-17 Thread john whelan
It was apparent on at least a dozen tiles with different mappers. One classic one was a highway that ran top right to bottom left, four segments of highway and three of no highway and that sort of matched the pattern on the tile view in TM. Several places where the image was a bit darker the segm

[HOT] Feedback Requested for Tasking Manager Design Project

2014-04-25 Thread Monique Mitchell
Happy Friday Folks! ***Quick Summary*** Students from the University of Colorado at Boulder are working on a class project that is looking at possible design enhancements to version 2.0 of the Tasking Manager. We’re focusing on macro-level themes and would love your contribution and feedback.

[HOT] Feedback needed: Organizational Strategy for 2014-2015

2014-08-27 Thread Schuyler Erle
Hello Team! One of the first deliverables from last month's Board of Directors meeting in Washington was a draft "organizational strategy" for the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team for the coming twelve months. http://goo.gl/Rfkrsc This document is intended to provide a kind of basic framework

[HOT] Feedback from MSF team in Doror refugee camp

2015-09-12 Thread Pete Masters
Hi all, had some nice feedback from an MSF epidemiologist in South Sudan in response to the mapping of http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1121 Big thanks to all that contributed! Feedback on a blog post, here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/pedrito1414/diary/35783 Cheers, Pete -- *Pete Maste

Re: [HOT] Feedback Requested for Tasking Manager Design Project

2014-04-28 Thread Pierre GIRAUD
Hi Monique, First of all, this looks awesome. FYI, I'm the main developer of the tasking manager for both V1 and V2. And I would be really happy to get help from you and the others students in order to improve the tasking manager, and increase its usefulness. I have several questions to begin wit

Re: [HOT] Feedback Requested for Tasking Manager Design Project

2014-04-28 Thread Mikel Maron
Monique, Pierre, all, This is excellent, and brilliant timing! I wanted to just flag quickly what's under development. As Pierre alluded to V2 is under development for a launch, soon. There's been discussion of this within the Technical Working Group. But we want to widen the feedback, and the

Re: [HOT] Feedback Requested for Tasking Manager Design Project

2014-04-30 Thread Monique Mitchell
Lovely to meet you via email, Pierre, and looking forward to our voice call tomorrow. Now, to answer some of your inquiries: --When I say "macro-level templates" I am referring to big-picture user experience sort of things. Over the progression of our study we have landed upon 4 main areas: a Soci

[HOT] Feedback about smartphones use for OSM field surveys

2012-06-11 Thread Charles Conley
Hello All, I wanted to ask a couple of questions and perhaps contribute a little to the discussion on external GPS use. The first item I wanted to ask about is the notion of accuracy. I'm not clear if the positional accuracy of an external bluetooth GPS is any greater than the accuracy of a smartp

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

2012-06-12 Thread Banick, Robert
ican Red Cross<http://www.redcross.org/> 2025 E Street NW, Washington, DC 20006 Tel 202-303-5017 | Cell 404-964-3451 | Fax 202-303-052 | Skype robert.banick From: Charles Conley [mailto:ccon...@immap.org] Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 1:52 PM To: hot@openstreetmap.org Subject: [HOT] Feedback

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

2012-06-12 Thread Victor Ferreira
d Cross <http://www.redcross.org/> > > 2025 E Street NW, Washington, DC 20006 > > Tel 202-303-5017 | Cell 404-964-3451 | Fax 202-303—052 | Skype > robert.banick > > ** ** > > *From:* Charles Conley [mailto:ccon...@immap.org] > *Sent:* Monday, June 11,

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

2012-06-12 Thread Boris Cornet
shington, DC 20006 > > Tel 202-303-5017 | Cell 404-964-3451 | Fax 202-303—052 | Skype robert.banick > >   > > From: Charles Conley [mailto:ccon...@immap.org] > Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 1:52 PM > To: hot@openstreetmap.org > Subject: [HOT] Feedback about smartphones use

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

2012-06-13 Thread Stéphane Henriod
> > the data loggers you mention could do a better job. > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Robert > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Robert Banick | GIS Coordinator | International Services | Ì American > Red Cros

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

2012-06-13 Thread Reinier Battenberg
, > > Robert > > > > > > > > Robert Banick | GIS Coordinator | International Services | Ì American Red Cross > > 2025 E Street NW, Washington, DC 20006 > > Tel 202-303-5017 | Cell 404-964-3451 | Fax 202-303—052 | Skype robert.banick > > > &g

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

2012-06-13 Thread Boris Cornet
Hi Stéphane! No comments on 'garmin vs. logger', I second every word. > ... SIRF III, despite your warning... would be interested to read > why you warn against it? Sirf3 was designed years ago, and is technically somewhat outdated. Recent chipsets offer a significantly better input gain which

[HOT] Feedback wanted: reaching out to universities in Ebola impacted countries

2014-11-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Hi all, We've observed the impacts of mapping parties, and also know that on the ground knowledge surpasses remote mapping in a number of categories. I was thinking about how best we can engage with interested groups and potentially bring their experience to bear on local map data. I've written u

Re: [HOT] Feedback wanted: reaching out to universities in Ebola impacted countries

2014-11-07 Thread Yantisa Akhadi
Hi Daniel, Great idea! We are currently working on similar program here in Indonesia called University Roadshow. The goal of the roadshow is to train university student how to support local disaster management agency in data collection. We are visiting 13 University and give socialization and tra

[HOT] Feedback from the Red Cross, UN people, and Esri: YOU (OSM) are GREAT!!!

2012-04-11 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Hi, Last week, I was at the conference "GIS for the United Nations and the International Community", a conference organized by UNITAR's Operational Satellite Application Programme (UNOSAT) and Esri, April 3-5, 2012, at the World Meteorological Organization, in Geneva, Switzerland. The main messag

Re: [HOT] Feedback from the Red Cross, UN people, and Esri: YOU (OSM) are GREAT!!!

2012-04-11 Thread Mikel Maron
talk >Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 4:47 PM >Subject: [HOT] Feedback from the Red Cross, UN people, and Esri: YOU (OSM) are >GREAT!!! > > >Hi, > >Last week, I was at the conference "GIS for the United Nations and the International Community", a conference org