Re: [HOT] newbie needs advice

2015-05-23 Thread Springfield Harrison
At 22-05-2015 01:06 Friday, cascafico wrote: Springfield Harrison wrote As a 30+ year helicopter pilot, I did have some concern with the very skimpy helipad instructions. In high-altitude, rugged terrain there is much more to locating helipads than finding a 30 m flat square of ground.

Re: [HOT] newbie needs advice

2015-05-22 Thread cascafico
Springfield Harrison wrote As a 30+ year helicopter pilot, I did have some concern with the very skimpy helipad instructions. In high-altitude, rugged terrain there is much more to locating helipads than finding a 30 m flat square of ground. Is there any technical oversight by experienced

Re: [HOT] newbie needs advice

2015-05-21 Thread Springfield Harrison
*potential* landing sites, to prepare the groud for the experts). Gesendet: Mittwoch, 06. Mai 2015 um 07:41 Uhr Von: Springfield Harrison stellar...@gmail.com An: Denis Carriere carriere.de...@gmail.com, HOT@openstreetmap.org hot@openstreetmap.org Betreff: Re: [HOT] newbie needs advice Hello

Re: [HOT] newbie needs advice

2015-05-07 Thread Springfield Harrison
Hello Jean-Guilhem, Sorry for the slow reply. OK, would be reviewing be through the verification process? I believe Pierre sent me instructions for that, I could look through them again. I did join the Skype group at Pierre's suggestion but he said no conversations were scheduled so I signed

Re: [HOT] newbie needs advice

2015-05-07 Thread Springfield Harrison
Hello Michael, Thanks for your feedback, sorry for the slow reply. I understand what you mean by preselection by the crowd but they may well miss a lot of potential sites which the experts will never get to evaluate. Or select a lot of duds which may bog down the verification process. The best

Re: [HOT] newbie needs advice

2015-05-06 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Hi Spring, As an experienced pilot, you are welcome to help review these potential sites. You've been added a couple of days ago to a Skype group on this subject. But you don't seem to be aware of it. Could you please check your Skype, and maybe restart it if you don't see anything? (You

Re: [HOT] newbie needs advice - connecting paths

2015-05-06 Thread Blake Girardot
mails. The web client should do that automatically, but doesn't always.) Gesendet: Mittwoch, 06. Mai 2015 um 11:49 Uhr Von: Kretzer kret...@gmx.net An: Andre Engels andreeng...@gmail.com Cc: Suzan Reed su...@suzanreed.com, hot hot@openstreetmap.org Betreff: Aw: Re: [HOT] newbie needs advice

Re: [HOT] newbie needs advice - connecting paths

2015-05-06 Thread Kretzer
@openstreetmap.org hot@openstreetmap.org Betreff: Re: [HOT] newbie needs advice - connecting paths Hi that is an excellent example. Between the buildings you are right I don't see a path and more over, we don't really need a path between those two individual buildings if that is what you were

Re: [HOT] newbie needs advice

2015-05-05 Thread Pierre Béland
://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.oftc.net/hot regard   Pierre De : Springfield Harrison stellar...@gmail.com À : Suzan Reed su...@suzanreed.com Cc : HOT@openstreetmap.org hot@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Mardi 5 mai 2015 18h21 Objet : Re: [HOT] newbie needs advice I couldn't find  a thing

Re: [HOT] newbie needs advice - connecting paths

2015-05-05 Thread Kretzer
2015 um 17:34 Uhr Von:Katja Ulbert m...@katja-ulbert.de An:hot@openstreetmap.org hot@openstreetmap.org Betreff:[HOT] newbie needs advice Hi all, I am a newbie coming up with a few questions, It would be great if someone with more knowledge could take the time to answer them. They dont have

Re: [HOT] newbie needs advice

2015-05-05 Thread Nick Allen
/irc.oftc.net/hot regard Pierre -- *De :* Springfield Harrison stellar...@gmail.com *À :* Suzan Reed su...@suzanreed.com *Cc :* HOT@openstreetmap.org hot@openstreetmap.org *Envoyé le :* Mardi 5 mai 2015 18h21 *Objet :* Re: [HOT] newbie needs advice I couldn't

Re: [HOT] newbie needs advice

2015-05-05 Thread Denis Carriere
*I'm not sure if succesful GIS is a crowd activity.* *I've asked but heard nothing about the end use of all this activity. Is it serving the folks on the ground?* OSM crowd activity is very successful, speaking from the Canadian Forces DART deployed on the ground. I've printed so far 300+

Re: [HOT] newbie needs advice

2015-05-05 Thread Springfield Harrison
Hello Master Cpl. Carriere, OK, glad to hear that. From the list of problems and concerns brought forward on the twitter session earlier, it definitely sounded like accuracy and consistency of the OSM editing might be suspect. Dragging their photos around to force the alignment of different

Re: [HOT] newbie needs advice

2015-05-05 Thread Suzan Reed
Dear Blake, It would be great if you could answer this on the list as I have many of the same questions. MingyurPema On May 5, 2015, at 8:42 AM, Blake Girardot wrote: I am going to answer some of this via irc. Cheers, Blake On 5/5/2015 5:34 PM, Katja Ulbert wrote: Hi all, I am a

Re: [HOT] newbie needs advice

2015-05-05 Thread Springfield Harrison
I couldn't find a thing on the IRC, I thought it was something to do with the Intl Red Cross, silly me. Information sources are hugely fragmented. I don't get a sense of leadership, just random action. I'm not sure if succesful GIS is a crowd activity. I've asked but heard nothing about the