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

2015-11-22 Thread Autre Planete
https://www.facebook.com/GivingTuesday/?sk=app_451684954848385&brandloc=DISABLE&app_data=view-vote%2Cfor-11415536 On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 4:21 AM, Rafael Avila Coya wrote: > Hi, Rod: > > Don't worry. I didn't take it personally. Only wanted to clarify. > > About automatic notifications, the only

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

2015-11-22 Thread Rafael Avila Coya
Hi, Rod: Don't worry. I didn't take it personally. Only wanted to clarify. About automatic notifications, the only services I am aware of are the itoworld OSM mapper and the whodidit. The first one allows me to have RSS for areas I want to monitor. The only issue is that it shows changes in ways

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

2015-11-22 Thread Rod Bera
Hi Rafael, On 21/11/15 17:23, Rafael Avila Coya wrote: > Hi, Rod: > > I already explained what I meant with my revert comments in my answer to > Dale, and asked for apologies if I was misunderstood. My comments about > revert were that "a ***potential*** revert would be troublesome, but I > wasn

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

2015-11-21 Thread Rafael Avila Coya
Hi, Rod: I already explained what I meant with my revert comments in my answer to Dale, and asked for apologies if I was misunderstood. My comments about revert were that "a ***potential*** revert would be troublesome, but I wasn't meaning that there should happen a revert without asking anybody.

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

2015-11-21 Thread Rod Bera
Hi all, I haven't taken part in mapping in this area, so I don't know about the details, but what I read looks concerning: large scale deletion, massive imports, and substantial reverts are to be discussed with the community. This is the base of OSM's collaborative work. Therefore I agree with Da

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

2015-11-21 Thread Rafael Avila Coya
Hi, Dale: Sorry for any misunderstanding, if there is any. I haven't been involved in any mapping in Haiti, anytime, so I am not aware of any of those imagery, etc. issues you all are discussing about in this thread. I've just read Pierre's question on buildings being deleted and my aim was only

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

2015-11-21 Thread Rafael Avila Coya
Hi, Dale: Sorry for any misunderstanding, if there is any. I haven't been involved in any mapping in Haiti, anytime, so I am not aware of any of those imagery, etc. issues you all are discussing about in this thread. I've just read Pierre's question on buildings being deleted and my aim was only

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

2015-11-20 Thread Dale Kunce
Hey guys. Sorry I've been offline with my family the last few hours. I'm not at the event tonight but will contact them them to encourage mappers to change projects. Just as an FYI, we've been planning tonight's event for the past couple of months with many different partners. As part of osmgeowe

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

2015-11-20 Thread Fred Moine
Dear all, See my answer under the line Rafael, We decided to do large scale deletion for a number of reasons. - Errors within iD that cause many buildings to be traced several times thus resulting in many many overlapping buildings. - I personally fixed thousands of overlaps and fixed s

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

2015-11-20 Thread Fred Moine
Dear dale, Following the email I saw today For the drone imagery the resolution is 8 cm rather than 50 cm or 30 cm for satellite imagery. The date is November, we just finished the processing. Since 2013 I am making capacity building for OSM Haiti team mainly with my own budget. Only in 2014 we

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

2015-11-20 Thread Pierre Béland
now. Could you please respect the Haiti OSM community and stop this?    Pierre De : Dale Kunce À : Pierre Béland Cc : Rafael Avila Coya ; "hot@openstreetmap.org" Envoyé le : Vendredi 20 novembre 2015 16h12 Objet : Re: [HOT] Task 1238 Canaan Important Deletion of existi

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

2015-11-20 Thread Dale Kunce
; > -- > *De :* Rafael Avila Coya > *À :* hot@openstreetmap.org > *Envoyé le :* Vendredi 20 novembre 2015 14h30 > *Objet :* Re: [HOT] Task 1238 Canaan Important Deletion of existing > objects > > Hi, Pierre: > > I guess this is what the majo

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

2015-11-20 Thread Pierre Béland
images (ie Bing and WW3).    Pierre De : Rafael Avila Coya À : hot@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Vendredi 20 novembre 2015 14h30 Objet : Re: [HOT] Task 1238 Canaan Important Deletion of existing objects Hi, Pierre: I guess this is what the majority of people do, and only the most

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

2015-11-20 Thread Dale Kunce
Rafael, We decided to do large scale deletion for a number of reasons. - Errors within iD that cause many buildings to be traced several times thus resulting in many many overlapping buildings. - I personally fixed thousands of overlaps and fixed several thousand of other validation

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

2015-11-20 Thread Paul Norman
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 da

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

2015-11-20 Thread Rafael Avila Coya
Hi, Pierre: I guess this is what the majority of people do, and only the most experienced users re-trace objects, also using the replace geometry tool (CTRL+SHIFT+G). It took me long to me to realise about that too. As usual in these cases, I would contact him to check what happened, and tell him

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

2015-11-20 Thread Dale Kunce
Pierre, Because of the difficulty in keeping the Canaan area up to date, due to the rapid urbanization. And a number of recent mapping incomplete efforts ARC used imagery from September of this year to complete a full QA/QC of the Canaan area, this included correcting spatial accuracy and updating

[HOT] Task 1238 Canaan Important Deletion of existing objects

2015-11-20 Thread Pierre Béland
Being in Port-au-Prince for a Training session of the Haiti OpenStreetMap community (Espace OSM francophone project), I collaborate this week with the Haiti OSM community who have monitored urbanisation progression in the Canaan sector, providing UAV imagery in 2013, 2014 and 2015 (60% of the zo