Re: [HOT] Polio Outbreak and Ebola Preparedness - East Cameroon - New Task Announcement

2014-11-24 Thread john whelan
I wonder if #777 is a little too ambitious? To view buildings you need to zoom in fairly closely, each tile covers an enormous area, 101 has already been mapped in detail so its not possible to download the tile from OSM. Many of the high resolution images have cloud cover. I accept the need but

Re: [HOT] Polio Outbreak and Ebola Preparedness - East Cameroon - New Task Announcement

2014-11-24 Thread Mark Cupitt
Hi John, a quick followup and thanks for bringing this up. I added an Issue for the developers to look at re marking tiles with Cloud Cover in GitHub and added the following in the instructions for the Task #777 *Note: These tiles are relatively large as it is a large area to cover. please feel

Re: [HOT] Polio Outbreak and Ebola Preparedness - East Cameroon - New Task Announcement

2014-11-24 Thread Bouke Pieter Ottow
Hi all, The maximum of splitting is reached while the tile is still to big in my sense for detailed mapping. How to solve that? Cheers, Bouke On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 05:02 Mark Cupitt markcup...@gmail.com wrote: Hi John, a quick followup and thanks for bringing this up. I added an Issue for the

Re: [HOT] Polio Outbreak and Ebola Preparedness - East Cameroon - New Task Announcement

2014-11-24 Thread Mark Cupitt
Hi Bourke, I was able to split twice, which is plenty I think. If your issue is downloading the OSM data, then try using the Mirrored Download Plugin on JOSM http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/mirrored_download Regards Mark Cupitt If we change the world, let it bear the mark of

Re: [HOT] Polio Outbreak and Ebola Preparedness - East Cameroon - New Task Announcement

2014-11-24 Thread Mark Cupitt
Hi Bourke Some more information to help you, we are not after detailed mapping at the moment, just basic transportation, roads, rivers, forests, etc. Also, some of this area is very sparsely populated and lot sf it is covered by Tree Canopy and there are a lot of Clouds covering the area as well.

Re: [HOT] Polio Outbreak and Ebola Preparedness - East Cameroon - New Task Announcement

2014-11-23 Thread john whelan
I've found picking out rivers and streams to be slightly problematical. If I zoom out then I can see a string of green which I assume is trees and vegetation along the bodies of water. Could someone knock up a video training guide on how to pick things out for us city dwellers on You-Tube or

Re: [HOT] Polio Outbreak and Ebola Preparedness - East Cameroon - New Task Announcement

2014-11-23 Thread Blake Girardot
I am going to go over this project right now doing what I call part of pre-mapping. I am going to look at the imagery, the local features, what is mapped and how is the image alignment from different sources. Maybe do a little mapping or fixing up along the way. From that I should be able to give

[HOT] Polio Outbreak and Ebola Preparedness - East Cameroon - New Task Announcement

2014-11-22 Thread Mark Cupitt
Dear All The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) need all rural Cameroon mapped in response to the Polio outbreak and also monitoring and preparing for a possible Ebola outbreak. A New task has been created to assist with Round 2 of this